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.

• Students will use visual representations, and analyze various approaches to solving routine and non-routine problems
• Weekly lesson plans equip teachers with a thematic unit that focuses on a standards-aligned skill
• Throughout the unit week, easy-to-use lessons outline activities to boost critical thinking skills with multi-step, higher-level problems
• Pages: 216

Help second grade students improve critical-thinking and reasoning skills with fun and effective daily practice activities.

180 Days of Problem Solving:
• Focuses on one skill each week so students can learn the problem-solving process, use visual models, and solve multi-step, non-routine word problems
• Builds student's confidence in problem solving skills with quick daily independent learning activities
• Makes at-home learning, whole class instruction, or small group support, quick and easy
• Includes standards-based activities, easy to follow instructions, and an answer key to quickly assess student understanding

Parents appreciate the teacher-approved activity books that keep their child engaged and learning. Great for homeschooling, to reinforce learning at school, or prevent learning loss over summer.

Teachers rely on the daily practice workbooks to save them valuable time. The ready to implement activities are perfect for daily morning review or homework. The activities can also be used for intervention skill building to address learning gaps.

• Students will use visual representations, and analyze various approaches to solving routine and non-routine problems
• Weekly lesson plans equip teachers with a thematic unit that focuses on a standards-aligned skill
• Throughout the unit week, easy-to-use lessons outline activities to boost critical thinking skills with multi-step, higher-level problems
• Pages: 224

Our Learning Fun Workbooks are specially developed to blend learning and fun in a way that helps build school skills. The Thinking and Reasoning book guides kindergartners through logic and problem-solving, creative thinking, patterns, sequences, opposites, comparisons and more.

Developed with teachers and aligned with school standards, this book uses fun and engaging activities like logic puzzles, mazes, matching games, find-the-differences images, That's Silly scenes and Hidden Pictures scenes to keep kids interested. It also includes a certificate of achievement and answers at the back.

• Developing good thinking and deductive reasoning skills is an important step toward success in school, and Highlights™ infuses Fun with a Purpose® into this essential learning activity.
• With vibrant art and engaging prompts, Thinking and Reasoning exposes kindergarteners to concepts such as sequencing and grouping and sorting through appealing activities and fun puzzles, including That's Silly!™ and Hidden Pictures® puzzles.
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Mind Benders®, our best-selling deductive thinking puzzles, develop logic, reading comprehension, and mental organizational skills that are vital to achieving high grades and top test scores in all subjects. They're also great for developing real-life, problem-solving skills.

Methods
Your students will learn to carefully analyze each Mind Benders® puzzle and its clues, identifying logical associations between people, places, and things. The key is to start with the most obvious associations, then deduce less obvious associations until everything finally fits together.

Teaching Support
Includes step-by-step instructions and detailed answers. Book levels spiral in difficulty within grade range.

• Deductive thinking puzzles that develop logic, reading comprehension and mental organization skills
• Step-by-step instructions and detailed answers are included
• 48 pages
• Answer guide included

Understanding the critical thinking skills of the 2001 revision of Bloom's Taxonomy is easy with this handy teaching tool. Learn how to ask questions, lead discussions and plan lessons geared to each level of critical thinking: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating. 5 x 6.

• Understanding the critical thinking skills of the 2001 revision of Bloom's Taxonomy is easy with this handy teaching tool
• Learn how to ask questions, lead discussions and plan lessons geared to each level of critical thinking: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating
• 5 x 6

Improve critical thinking skills and you're sure to improve reading comprehension, problem solving, writing skills and more! This book is part of the Critical Thinking Skills Series that includes over 400 pages of step-by-step activities, carefully structured to give students the thinking and logic skills they need to master every area of learning. The delightful exercises challenge students to think using a variety of methods such as analogies, classification, drawing solutions, and more! Each book is arranged sequentially to help learners develop critical thinking in easy-to-digest steps. A terrific way to give your students the tools they need for success in school as well as in their daily lives!

• Improve critical thinking skills and you're sure to improve reading comprehension, problem solving, writing skills and more
• Includes over 400 pages of step-by-step activities
• Challenge students to think using a variety of methods such as analogies, classification, drawing solutions, and more
• A terrific way to give your students the tools they need for success in school as well as in their daily lives

This 136-page book is comprised of intriguing activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill assessed on standardized reading tests. This comprehension skill usually determines a student's reading score—and every Daily Mind Builders: Social Studies activity develops this skill.

Each daily activity page includes two puzzles that are often solved in 5-15 minutes. The first puzzle is a short, true mystery. Its solution requires careful reading, inferential reasoning, and deductive thinking. The second puzzle involves deductive thinking, and is designed to build vocabulary and associative thinking skills. This puzzle uses a process of elimination involving the meanings of words or relationships between words. Try a sample and you'll be hooked!

The best use of these books is when presented as a non-threatening, non-graded, fun activity where students are praised for all logical answers even if they don't happen to be the correct answers. Remember, in critical thinking, the journey is as important as the destination, and all reasonable efforts at critical thinking should be commended.

These intriguing puzzles can also be used as a:
Motivational beginning activity as an addition to the curriculum.
Culminating activity after a lesson or at the end of the day.
Fill-in activity when there is an awkward time break during the school day.
Valid educational activity for students who finish assigned activities earlier than their classmates.

• Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests
• Grade 5-12
• This 136-page book is comprised of intriguing activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons
• Answer guide included

This colorful, fun 224-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests. It also teaches many academic concepts and skills taught in kindergarten and first grade.

The fun, highly-effective and engaging reasoning activities improve the vocabulary, pre-reading, pre-writing, math, logic, spatial, and auditory processing skills of preschoolers. It teaches students to use organized analysis instead of guesswork to solve problems. The book may be used as a complete critical thinking curriculum to prepare young minds for preschool academics.

Concepts include: Visual Tracking, Visual Constancy, Visual Motor Skills, Spatial Relationships, Auditory Processing, Auditory Memory, Fine Motor Skill Development, Inferential Reasoning/Prediction, Deduction, Identifying Similarities & Differences, Classifying, Identifying Sequences, Completing Analogies, Creative Problem Solving, Colors, Logical Connectives (And, Or), Lines (Straight, Curved, Straight and Curved), Open & Closed Figures, Corners, Geometric Shapes (Circle, Triangle, Rectangle, Square), Behind & In-Between, Above & Below, Measurement (Longer, Longest, Shorter, Shortest, Larger, Largest, Smaller, Smallest), Half & Whole, and Left & Right.

• 224-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests
• Sequenced in small steps
• The book uses colorful, easy-to-understand activities
• The fun, highly-effective and engaging reasoning activities improve the vocabulary, pre-reading, pre-writing, math, logic, spatial, and auditory processing skills
• 216 pages

This engaging 288-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests in Grades 7-12+. The Building Thinking Skills® series is the bestselling thinking skills program in the world! The engaging, highly-effective activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and in the abstract verbal form in this book's companion Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal. Students also learn important academic vocabulary, concepts, and skills as they analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words by:
• Observing, recognizing, and describing characteristics
• Distinguishing similarities and differences
• Identifying and completing sequences, classifications, and analogies

These processes help students develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects.

• Higher-Order Thinking Activities
• This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment
• The #1 selling thinking skills program in the world
• Answer guide included
• 192 pages

This colorful and engaging series improves academic performance in Reading, Writing, Math and Science and prepares students for a wide variety of cognitive tests commonly used for academic placement. The highly effective verbal and spatial reasoning activities also develop analysis skills, problem-solving, logical thinking, and visual and auditory processing skills. Students learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words.

• Colorful and engaging series improves academic performance in Reading, Writing, Math, and Science
• Prepares students for a wide variety of cognitive tests commonly used for academic placement
• Highly effective verbal and spatial reasoning activities also develop analysis skills, problem-solving, logical thinking, and visual and auditory processing skills
• Students learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words