I just began teaching a logic class at my kids’ school and while I am by no means an expert in teaching and I will be learning as much or more than the kids through the process, I have had some successes already.
I wanted to get the first class started off right in an interactive way so I played a variation of Two Truths and Lie, adding in a wish instead of the truth.
The idea is that one person states one truth, one lie, and one wish, and everyone guesses which one is which.
I made a further innovation and I got the class of high schoolers to discuss among themselves the possibilities and give arguments as to what they think would be each statement. As a result we got a lot of interesting logical and illogical arguments.
At one point someone said their favorite food was chicken and another student said, “that’s either true or false because there’s really no reason why you would wish that chicken was your favorite food.” That was a great point.
I called on another student and he said “I don’t know.” I said that that could actually be a legitimate statement in the game so he elaborated with “I don’t know is true. I know is a lie. And I wish I knew.” Fair enough.
This can be drawn out for an entire class probably depending on the size. It helps you get to know the students and see how good of liars they are!
By the way, my logic jokes below bombed, but you might find them funny:
A logician’s wife is having a baby. The doctor immediately hands the newborn to the dad. The wife says, ‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ The logician says, ‘Yes.’
The computer programmer is going to the store. His wife says, “Can you please pick up 1 gallon of milk. If they have bananas, pick up 6.” The programmer goes to the store and comes back with 6 gallons of milk. His wife asks, “Why did you get 6 gallons of milk?” The programmer responds, “Because they had bananas.”