Mind Map Critical Thinking

Plinko Brain in Action

First level answers to the question call upon memory:

What is the meaning of the word ___ROSE___?

Sounds simple, right? Everybody know a rose is a pretty flower with a pleasant fragrance and sharp thorns.  However, a peek at a convenient online dictionary reveals: Everything's coming up roses (an idiom for rose). 

Dictionary defined Rose:

	a prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.		an ornamental plate or socket surrounding the shaft of a doorknob at the face of a door.
	a directional diagram which radiates from a common center, as a compass card or wind rose.		Mathematics . a plane polar curve consisting of three or more equal loops that meet at the origin. Equation: r = a sin( n?) or r = a cos( n?).
	Crystal mineral Rose quartz		a perforated cap or plate, as at the end of a pipe or the spout of a watering pot.

 ...and more.

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Image credit

Rose quarts photo By Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10147295

http://www.vintagehardware.com/vintage-door-knobs-and-door-rosettes.php?cat=406

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Rose.html

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