This 128-page book uses topics and skills drawn from national math standards to prepare your students for advanced math courses and assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in math.

Students read a short story that includes a chart, table, or graph. Next they answer critical thinking questions to improve their understanding of the math concept and develop their critical thinking (comprehension) skills. Students can't just scan the story for answers—they must carefully analyze and synthesize the information from the text and the chart, table, or graph to explain and support their answers.

The questions in Math Detective A1 are modeled after questions found on high-stakes math assessments, but require more critical thinking. These problems are excellent preparation for assessments that require students to explain and support their answers.

Stories are age-relevant, high-interest, and show students that math is integral to everyday activities. This book contains a lesson that explains the concept of evidence, a chart of activity topics and key ideas to help parents and teachers select activities, and detailed answers.

The activities in Math Detective A1 are organized around these math concepts:
Number and Numeration
Operations
Geometry
Probability
Statistics
Pre-Algebra

• Prepare your students for more advanced math courses and new assessments
• Measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in math
• Includes topics such as number and numeration, operations, geometry
• Also spatial sense, probability, statistics, pre-algebra, and more

How has lighthouse technology changed over time? How do zookeepers keep zoo animals happy and healthy? Find the answers to these questions and more with this Spanish STEAM book set devoted to finding creative solutions to real-world problems!

Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this set features hands-on STEAM challenges that are perfect for makerspaces and that guide students step-by-step through the engineering design process. Make STEAM career connections with career advice from actual Smithsonian employees working in STEAM fields. Ignite a curiosity about STEAM in kids ages 4-6 with these titles:

• Building Lighthouses
• Finding the Right Container
• Making More Doughnuts
• Making Water Safe
• Pulling Taffy
• Solving Problems at the Zoo

• Features hands-on STEAM challenges that are perfect for makerspaces and that guide students step-by-step through the engineering design process
• Spanish STEAM book set devoted to finding creative solutions to real-world problems
• Set of 6 books

This 48-page book contains several of our best-selling deductive thinking puzzles. It develops the logic, reading comprehension, and mental organization skills vital to achieving higher grades and top test scores in all subjects. These award-winning, fun puzzles are also great for developing real-life, problem-solving skills! Students learn to carefully analyze each Mind Benders® story and its clues, identifying logical associations between people, places, and things. The key is to make sure you get all the information out of each clue, by starting with the most obvious associations, then deducing the less obvious associations until everything finally fits together.

• Students learn to carefully analyze each Mind Benders® story and its clues, identifying logical associations between people, places, and things
• Step-by-step instructions and detailed answers are included
• Fun puzzles are also great for developing real-life, problem-solving skills
• Answer guide included
• Grades 3-6

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!

• A game where your flying skills will be tested to the limit in order to escape
• A galactic sliding puzzle with 60 missions, from beginner to expert
• Includes a game board with lid, making it perfect for travel
• Helps develop Concentration, Problem Solving, Planning and Logic Skills.

Quick Flip Resources provide great teaching strategies right at your fingertips! Handheld, spiral-bound charts make lesson planning easy. Measures 5 x 6. Supports requirements of Title I and other federally funded programs. Sold as a pack of 4 identical quick flips.

• Improve thinking skills at any age
• Learn how to ask questions, lead discussions and plan lessons geared to each level of critical thinking: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating
• Measures 5 x 6
• Pack of 4

A strategy game for two or more players, with two levels of difficulty. Using deductive reasoning and logic, the decoder has to break the secret code made up by the other player, in the least amount of tries. Then it's the first player's turn to create a combination of colors as complex as possible so that it can't be decoded. The illustrated leaflets included show the different levels of difficulty of the secret code, which may be made up of 4 or 5 positions, using the 8 colors available.

• Best seller strategy game - for 2 or more players
• 2 levels of difficulty: according to which board is used, the secret code will be made up of either 4 or 5 colors
• Through deductive and logical reasoning, the code decipherer will have to discover the secret code composed by the opponent in the least number of attempts
• Game which develops strategic thinking, mathematical-logical reasoning and problem solving
• Safely Made in Italy
• Great fun for the whole family

Rami celebrates 40 years of success. Winner of best educational toy of the year awards in multiple international competitions, and still unmatched in terms of playability and for its educational value, this toy helps small children to think creatively and to resolve problems applying logic... one step at a time. The new version, Rami Code, gives children their first experience of coding, or programming, that is writing instructions that make an object do what it does. This skill is becoming more and more important in the educational environment because it stimulates children's computational thinking, the ability to break down a complex problem into single parts which are easier to solve.

• Preschool game
• Rami Code eases Coding learning with the help of the binary system
• Coding means programming, that is to write instructions which enable an object to do what it does
• It stimulates creative thinking and problem solving through the application of logic
• Safely Made in Italy

From SmartGames, the worldwide leader in single player puzzle games, comes Day & Night. Re-create shapes and designs, block by block, with this beautifully crafted 3-D wooden puzzle. Young kids can begin with challenges whose blocks are revealed in the light of day, while more advanced puzzles have only the silhouettes visible. Day & Night is a fun way to develop problem solving and logical thinking skills as well as spatial reasoning abilities.

• A fun, unique twist on puzzle games; solve the puzzles in day and night!
• A wooden game made from high quality materials
• 48 Challenges, including Starter, Junior, Expert and Master levels
• Early challenges are great for beginners
• Helps develop logic and spatial reasoning skills

The Balance Math™ & More! activities sharpen your child's critical thinking skills, computational skills, and develop algebraic reasoning. The third book (Level 3) involves addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication, as well as fractions and decimals. The spiraling difficulty level is designed to scaffold a child's conceptual understanding of the targeted operations from beginning to advanced. Try one of these intriguing puzzles -- and then try to stop!

This version is the most sophisticated Mindo game. Serene game play, high-quality tiles, and more challenging puzzles to solve make this the perfect way to pass the time. Indulge in hours of peaceful brain teasing, or take it with you while on the go in the small, compact box.

To solve the puzzles, turn and flip the double-sided tiles until you recreate the color pattern on the challenge card. They only fit one way into the 4 x 4 grid; can you figure it out? Includes 60 different challenge cards and 4 levels of difficulty ensure hours of relaxing meditation.

For 1 player, ages 8 and up. Play Time: 20 minutes. Skills: Visual Perception, Logic, and Focus and Attention.

Contents: 60 Challenge Cards (with solutions), 9 Tiles, and Illustrated Rules.

• Serene game play, high-quality tiles, and more challenging puzzles to solve
• 60 different challenge cards and 4 levels of difficulty ensure hours of relaxing meditation
• Indulge in hours of peaceful brain teasing, or take it with you while on the go in the small, compact box
• Ages 8+