Martha tries to explain the concept of an organization to her students. She draws similarities between the structure of a family and the structure of an organization. She tells them that both in a family and in an organization, people work together to achieve a common goal. In both settings, people are assigned certain tasks and duties, and they are required to fulfill them. In the context of inductive reasoning, which method is Martha using?
What will be an ideal response?
Martha is using an analogy to explain the concept of an organization to her students. An analogy is a correspondence between otherwise dissimilar things. Analogies can be used to improve students' understanding of new concepts by comparing them with already learned concepts.
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