Logic & Critical Thinking

Algebra Word Problems use process skills and then gradually introduces more challenging concepts to give children the confidence and ability to master algebra word problems. Teaching Support: Includes examples, practice problems, practical hints, and answers. 176 pages. Grades 7-12+. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

Develops a solid foundtion of algebraic thinking. Use process skills and the gradual introduction of more challenging concepts to give students the confidence and ability to master algebra word problems. Includes examples, practice problems, detailed solutions, and practical hints. Book I includes: How to solve algebra word problems, Translating words into algebraic symbols, Ages & Coins, Mixtures, Formulas, Rectangles, D=rt and Percents & work rates. Grades 7-12. 490 activities. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

Analogies 1 is instructional material. It presents a step-by-step approach to analogy problem-solving that makes mastery of the techniques manageable for students. Strategies include creating "bridge sentences" as a tool for examining analogies, looking out for words with more than one meaning, solving 2-step analogies, and identifying various types of analogies. These techniques are taught in depth in Book 1 and are reviewed in Books 2 and 3. Grades 7-8. Learn More

Each of the Analogies books consist of three parts. Part 1 provides information on analogies and how to solve them. This instructional material is written in clear, conversational English with a minimum of technical terms and makes mastery of analogy techniques manageable for students. Topics include the "bridge sentence," words with more than one meaning, two-step analogies, and various analogy types. There are also warm-up exercises for the students, which are followed up with helpful answers and explanations. Part 2 presents hundreds of analogies organized into 3 groups. Each group is broken down into units, with each unit consisting of 20 problems. There are 15 units in Analogies 1 and Analogies 2, and 20 units in Analogies 3. Part 3 contains vocabulary groups of 100 words each, with the alphabetized and defined words representing some of the most difficult ones in the corresponding analogy group. There are 3 vocabulary groups in Books 1 and 2, and 4 in Book 3. Grades 9-10. Learn More

Each of the Analogies books consist of three parts. Part 1 provides information on analogies and how to solve them. This instructional material is written in clear, conversational English with a minimum of technical terms and makes mastery of analogy techniques manageable for students. Topics include the "bridge sentence," words with more than one meaning, two-step analogies, and various analogy types. There are also warm-up exercises for the students, which are followed up with helpful answers and explanations. Part 2 presents hundreds of analogies organized into three groups. Each group is broken down into units, with each unit consisting of twenty problems. There are fifteen units in Analogies 1 and Analogies 2, and twenty units in Analogies 3. Part 3 contains vocabulary groups of one hundred words each, with the alphabetized and defined words representing some of the most difficult ones in the corresponding analogy group. There are three vocabulary groups in Books 1 and 2, and four in Book 3. Grades 11-12. Learn More

Balance Benders Beginning Grades 2-6. Mover over Sudoku, here comes Balance Benders! You can use these book as quick, fun, problems or as stepping-stones to success to 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. Helps your child succeed on standardized tests and prepares them for higher level assessments. Recommended for grades 2-6.

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Balance Benders Level 1 Grades 4-12+. Mover over Sudoku, here comes Balance Benders! You can use these book as quick, fun, problems or as stepping-stones to success to 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. Helps your child succeed on standardized tests and prepares them for higher level assessments. Recommended for grades 4-12+.

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Balance Benders Level 2 Grades 6-12. Mover over Sudoku, here comes Balance Benders! You can use these book as quick, fun, problems or as stepping-stones to success to 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. Helps your child succeed on standardized tests and prepares them for higher level assessments. Recommended for grades 6-12+.

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

The Balance Math™ & More! activities sharpen students' critical thinking skills, computational skills, and develop algebraic reasoning. The second book (Level 2) focuses on multiplication and division of whole numbers, but has a few problems involving fractions. 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! Learn More

Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve your children's vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment. The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics. Distinguish similarities and differences. Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies. These processes help children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects Teaching Support Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is now included. Grades 2-3. 376 pages. From The Critical Thinking Company. (Note: Cover may not depict current edition offered for sale.) Learn More

Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve your children's vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment. The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics. Distinguish similarities and differences. Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies. These processes help children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects Teaching Support Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is now included. 416 pages. Grades 4-6. From The Critical thinking Company. (Note: Cover may not depict current edition offered for sale.) Learn More

Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve your children's vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment. The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics. Distinguish similarities and differences. Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies. These processes help children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects Teaching Support Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is now included. 288 pages. Grades 7-12+. From The Critical Thinking Company. Note: Cover may not depict edition offered for sale.

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Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve your children's vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment. The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics. Distinguish similarities and differences. Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies. These processes help children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects Teaching Support Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is now included. 350 pages. Grades 7-12+. From The Critical Thinking Company. (Note: Cover may not depict edition offered for sale.)

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Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve your children's vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment. The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics. Distinguish similarities and differences. Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies. These processes help children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects. Grades K-1. 272 pages. From The Critical Thinking Company. (Note: Cover may not depict current edition offered for sale.) Learn More

Can You Find Me? develops skills in reading readiness, science, math, and social studies using five basic thinking skills: similarities and differences, sequences, classifications, analogies, and logic. Content is based on state standards. Each riddle requires identification of two or more clues to deduce the answer. Activities may be enhanced by teaching additional information about the animals, objects, shapes, letters, and numbers used in the riddles. Teaching Support: Includes suggested answers and a chart of the skills developed in each activity. Grade K-1. 112 pages. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

Can You Find Me? develops skills in reading readiness, science, math, and social studies using five basic thinking skills: similarities and differences, sequences, classifications, analogies, and logic. Content is based on state standards. Each riddle requires identification of two or more clues to deduce the answer. Activities may be enhanced by teaching additional information about the animals, objects, shapes, letters, and numbers used in the riddles. Learn More

Critical Thinking teaches your child to think logically, present well-developed arguments, and see through unsupported arguments. Book One helps students develop the fundamentals of logic, argumentation, and critical reading. Easy-to-understand explanations of concepts are followed by examples and real-life, often humorous, discussion problems. Students learn to identify valid and invalid claims and arguments, sufficient and insufficient evidence, fact and opinion, generalizations, emotional arguments, inferences, deductions, and more. Instruction/Answer Guide - Sold Separately Includes goals, teaching suggestions, and answers. No previous background in logic is required to teach these activities. 184 pages. Grades 7-12+. From The Critical Thinking Company. Learn More

Instruction/Answer Guide for Student Book (sold separately, Item # 3615). Includes goals, teaching suggestions, and answers. No previous background in logic is required to teach these activities. 42 pages. From The Critical Thinking Company. (Cover may not depict current edition offered for sale.) Learn More

Critical Thinking teaches your child to think logically, present well-developed arguments, and see through unsupported arguments. Book One helps students develop the fundamentals of logic, argumentation, and critical reading. Easy-to-understand explanations of concepts are followed by examples and real-life, often humorous, discussion problems. Students learn to identify valid and invalid claims and arguments, sufficient and insufficient evidence, fact and opinion, generalizations, emotional arguments, inferences, deductions, and more. Instruction/Answer Guide - Sold Separately Includes goals, teaching suggestions, and answers. No previous background in logic is required to teach these activities. 253 pages. Grades 7-12+. From The Critical Thinking Company. (Cover may not depict current edition offered for sale.) Learn More

Daily Mind Builders Language Arts Grades 5-12+. In addition to waking up sleepy brains for the day's lessons, these short, fun, daily activity pages develop the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing desperate 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 child's reading score- and every Daily Mind Builders activity develops this skill. Each daily activity page includes two puzzles. The first puzzle is a short, true mystery. Its solution requires careful reading, inferential reasoning, and deductive thinking. The second puzzle involves a process of elimination involving the meanings of words or relationships between words. Grades 5-12+.

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Daily Mind Builders Science Grades 5-12+. In addition to waking up sleepy brains for the day's lessons, these short, fun, daily activity pages develop the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing desperate 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 child's reading score- and every Daily Mind Builders activity develops this skill. Each daily activity page includes two puzzles. The first puzzle is a short, true mystery. Its solution requires careful reading, inferential reasoning, and deductive thinking. The second puzzle involves a process of elimination involving the meanings of words or relationships between words. Grades 5-12+.

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Dalily Mind Builders Social Studies Grades 5-12+. In addition to waking up sleepy brains for the day's lessons, these short, fun, daily activity pages develop 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 child's reading score- and every Daily Mind Builders activity develops this skill. Each daily activity page includes two puzzles. The first puzzle is a short, true mystery. Its solution requires careful reading, inferential reasoning, and deductive thinking. The second puzzle involves a process of elimination involving the meanings of words or relationships between words. Grades 5-12+

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Dr. DooRiddles develops your child's fluency and understanding of word meanings and associations as it improves their spelling, vocabulary, reading, and problem solving skills. Children carefully read through clues in each riddle, analyzing connections within and between clues to figure out what is being described. Solving the riddles requires children to evaluate homonyms, synomyms, homophones, prefixes, roots and suffixes in order to deduce and spell whole and partial word answers. Grades PreK-2 activities may be read aloud to pre-readers. Gr. PreK-2. 48 pages.

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