Critical Thinking

Take your students on a year-round problem-solving adventure with thematic units that hone in on the key skills needed to meet today's standards. With the changes in mathematics standards, teachers need a tool to help them implement lessons that provide a deeper understanding of math concepts. 180 Days of Problem Solving gives teachers daily opportunities to go beyond routine word problems to strengthen reasoning skills with practice that shows how these skills apply in real-life situations. Aligned with national standards, this comprehensive workbook prepares students for college and career.

Take your students on a year-round problem-solving adventure with thematic units that hone in on the key skills needed to meet today's standards. With the changes in mathematics standards, teachers need a tool to help them implement lessons that provide a deeper understanding of math concepts. 180 Days of Problem Solving gives teachers daily opportunities to go beyond routine word problems to strengthen reasoning skills with practice that shows how these skills apply in real-life situations. Aligned with national standards, this comprehensive workbook prepares students for college and career.

Take the mystery out of multi-step, higher-level problems with 180 Days of Problem Solving. With the changes in math standards, teachers need an easy-to-use classroom resource to equip them with lessons and strategies to delve deeper so students gain a better understanding of how these skills apply in real-life situations. Take students on a year-long problem solving adventure with daily activities that focuses on the skills third grade students need to know to advance to the next level. This powerful resource offers purposeful practice that goes beyond routine word problems to strengthen reasoning skills. Aligned with national standards, 180 Days of Problem Solving readies students for college and career readiness. Weekly thematic units hone in on a standards-based skill Throughout the week, students will explore visual representations, analyze different approaches, and practice non-routine problems Teacher-friendly lessons outline activities to boost critical thinking skills with multi-step, higher-level problems

The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade 5 offers daily problem solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems. This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that fifth grade students are expected to know to advance to the next level. Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems. Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems). This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards.

Demystify your sixth grade students and build their confidence as they approach complex word problems. This powerful resource goes beyond routine problems to provide purposeful, daily activities that strengthen the critical thinking and reasoning skills needed to advance to the next level. With the changes in math standards, it is crucial that teachers have a classroom resource that offers a deeper understanding of math concepts. Aligned with national standards, 180 Days of Problem Solving prepares sixth grade students for college and career readiness. Lessons introduce a standard-based concept with fun, engaging activities Students explore visual representations, analyze different approaches, discover diverse ways to handle non-routine problems, and see how these skills apply in real-life situations Teacher-friendly lessons outline activities to boost critical thinking skills with multi-step, higher-level problems

2011 Major Fun Award Winner - Family Games & Puzzles 2011 Preferred Choice Award - Creative Child Magazine 2011 Tillywig Award Winner 2010 Parents' Choice Award Gold Winner - highest honors! Acuity - The Maverick New Game of Sharp Vision & Keen Thought! For reinforcing visual spatial skills, pattern recognition, and quick mental processing, Acuity is a brilliant choice! -And full of new zest too! Acuity is a fun, brainteasing game unlike any other you've seen before. Acuity is the clever matching game of quick visual perception where players race against each other or work together to discover and match hidden patterns in the tiles' arrangement. First, 70 wonderfully durable and vibrantly mind-bending pattern tiles, are set in a grid arrangement of 36 tiles. Your job will be to find a match. Here's the kicker. None of the tiles match. Not one. All 70 are different. Sooooo that means to find a match, players must find two side-by-side tiles that together, by looking at 2 adjacent squares on each - would match the tile that you're hoping to match. Or- alternatively, players could find the matching pattern by looking at the corners of 4 tiles together. *If you can't see a match, you can turn one tile one quarter of a turn to make one. It's easy. Easy until your mind's eye tricks you! It's the surprise in finding a match or thinking you've found a match (when you really haven't) that makes Acuity a one-of-a-kind, long-lasting source of fun game play over time. Acuity is never, ever the same game twice. Really. Not ever. Featuring 70 wonderfully durable and vibrantly mind-bending pattern tiles, Acuity will delight all ages. With simple rules, Acuity is a game the entire family can play together. No reading required... simply the ability to flip, turn and match! Acuity ·Cleverly designed patterned tiles test your visual acuity ·All minds on board to master the match! ·Full instructions included

Winner of the 2009 Parents' Choice Gold Award Named one of the best educational toys by USA Weekend Solve the Puzzle to Stop the Stampede! The Story . . . The river is rising and the rapids are raging! Can you help the animals to safety by solving the puzzle? AnimaLogic is a brilliant new puzzle game that will have children working their brain overtime to solve these wonderfully smart safari stumpers! Lions, hippos, giraffes and camels are all waiting to get to the other side of the river. The animals know they may only cross the river bridge one at a time and they must travel in the proper order to safely arrive at the other side. With sixty puzzles and five levels of difficulty (beginner to advanced), these logic puzzles have players solving the correct sequence to remove the sixteen wooden animals from the game board. Expect sequencing, color and object recognition, and matching abilities to refine quickly. For logic building - AnimaLogic is progressively more challenging with each puzzle attempt - it's WILDLY effective entertainment! AnimaLogic captures the interest of the whole family. ·Marvelously high quality, educational game ·Captures interest of a wide range of ages and abilities ·Game Contents: ·16 wooden animals in yellow, blue, green and red. ·4 lions—1 each of yellow, blue, green and red ·4 hippos—1 each of yellow, blue, green and red ·4 giraffes—1 each of yellow, blue, green and red ·4 camels—1 each of yellow, blue, green and red ·Durable game board ·Game notebook (includes 60 full color puzzles and solutions)

Can you navigate your spaceship through an asteroid field? Your flying skills will be tested to the limit in order to escape! SmartGames Asteroid Escape is a galactic sliding puzzle with 60 missions, from beginner to expert. Includes a game board with lid, making it perfect for travel!

Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders™! You can use these activities as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Students develop problem-solving skills and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are more fun and addictive than Sudoku puzzles! Students must analyze each balance to identify the clues, and then synthesize the information to solve the puzzle. Try one—and then try to stop! Balance Benders™ puzzles spiral—gradually introducing more challenging concepts to give students the confidence and ability to master algebra word problems.

Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders™! You can use these activities as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Students develop problem-solving skills and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are more fun and addictive than Sudoku puzzles! Students must analyze each balance to identify the clues, and then synthesize the information to solve the puzzle. Try one—and then try to stop! Balance Benders™ puzzles spiral—gradually introducing more challenging concepts to give students the confidence and ability to master algebra word problems. These concepts include: Deductive Thinking, Pre-Algebra, Analysis, Commutative Property, Distributive Property, Associative Property, Substitution Property of Equality and Inequality, Addition Property of Equality and Inequality, Subtraction Property of Equality and Inequality, Multiplication Property of Equality and Inequality, Division Property of Equality and Inequality

Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders™! You can use these activities as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Students develop problem-solving skills and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are more fun and addictive than Sudoku puzzles! Students must analyze each balance to identify the clues, and then synthesize the information to solve the puzzle. Try one—and then try to stop! Balance Benders™ puzzles spiral—gradually introducing more challenging concepts to give students the confidence and ability to master algebra word problems.

Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders™! You can use these books as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Children develop deductive thinking and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are more fun and addictive than Sudoku puzzles! Children must analyze each balance to identify the clues, and then synthesize the information to solve the puzzle. Try one -- and then try to stop!