Logic & Critical Thinking

Building thinking skills beginning, provides fun, highly effective and engaging reasoning activities to improve the vocabulary, pre-reading, pre-writing, math, logic, spatial, and auditory processing skills of preschoolers.

It teaches children to use organized analysis instead of guesswork to solve problems as it develops Critical Thinking skills necessary for success in reading, math, writing, and science.

The title may be used as a complete Critical Thinking Curriculum to prepare young Minds for preschool academics.

The book uses colorful, easy-to-understand activities, sequenced in small steps, many game-like, and solvable in a short period.

Recommended for ages 4 and up.

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This engaging 320-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests in Grades 2-3. 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 first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. 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.

LEVEL 1 Figural-Spatial Skills: Describing shapes Figures: compare / describe /copy / enlarge / divide Diagrams: overlapping classes / Venn / branching / cycle Mental pattern folding / symmetry Directionality / Position in space Mental rotation / reflection / tumbling / stacking / folding of 2-D objects Congruence / area / volume Analogies: size / color / orientation / detail Visual motor integration and memory Use of graphic organizers

Verbal Skills: Spelling / Vocabulary / Writing: describing things and words Following and writing 1-, 2-, and 3-step directions Antonyms / synonyms Analogies: kind of / part of / used to / association / action Deductive / Inductive reasoning Parts of a whole Map reading Writing directions Logic: if-then / yes-no / true-false Orientation: person / place / time Auditory memory Language acquisition

Teaching Support Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is included.

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This engaging 416-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests in Grades 4-6. 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 first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form. 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.

LEVEL 2

Figural-Spatial Skills

Describing shapes Figures: compare / describe / copy / enlarge / divide Diagrams: overlapping classes / Venn / branching / cycle Mental pattern folding / symmetry Directionality / Position in space Mental rotation / reflection / tumbling / stacking / folding of 2-D objects Congruence / area / volume Analogies: size / color / orientation / detail Visual motor integration and memory Use of graphic organizers

Verbal Skills

Spelling / Vocabulary / Writing: describing things and words Following and writing 1-, 2-, and 3-step directions Antonyms / synonyms Analogies: kind of / part of / used to / association / action Deductive / Inductive reasoning Parts of a whole Map reading Writing directions Logic: if-then / yes-no / true-false Orientation: person / place / time Auditory memory Language acquisition

Teaching Support Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts.

An answer guide is included.

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The entire Building Thinking Skills® series provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve students’ 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. Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 is comprised of two separate books – Figural and Verbal. The activities are developmentally sequenced. The Figural book of Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 teaches students to analyze relationships between objects in the semi-concrete (figural-spatial) form to develop the following skills: - 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. Teaching Support Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is now included, however, a separate Instruction/Answer Guide is also available but is not required. The optional teaching guide includes objectives and focus questions that reinforce analytical skills. See components sold separately above for ordering information about the separate, optional Instruction/Answer Guide. 288 pages. Perforated. From The Critical Thinking Company. Gr. 7-12+ Learn More

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Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve students’ 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. Students learn to 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. 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. 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

Who’s to Blame Logic Game

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Tangled yarn and a missing bird... which of the six furry fiends was responsible for each Cat Crime?

With a little problem solving you’ll be able to use paw prints, toy placement and other clues to figure out exactly where each Cat was sitting at the time of the crime.

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In the origami world, cats were traditionally under-represented, and the few existing models were rather flat and lifeless. But thanks to modern folding techniques, it's possible to recapture the true charm of our feline companions.

This book for origamists of all skill levels offers 20 original designs that range from a grinning Cheshire cat and a snoozing feline to a walking cat, a seated cat, a Halloween cat, and the smug cat that got the cream, as well as cats on an envelope, a bookmark, a greeting card, and other figures.

Along with step-by-step directions and diagrams, each model features a full-color image of the finished cat.

Projects are rated according to difficulty, and a brief introductory chapter explains folding techniques and suggestions for how to choose the most appropriate origami paper. These cute kitties, in addition to being fun to fold, make great little gifts for cat-fanciers.

Dover Original.

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 Electric Current Logic Game 

Ignite your logic and sequential reasoning skills with Circuit Maze!

Your goal is to arrange the tokens to create a real circuit that lights up the different colored beacons.

These clever circuit-building puzzles provide a boost of brainpower and a wonderful introduction to electrical engineering.

60 challenges ranging in difficulty from beginner to expert, this logic game will provide engineers of all levels with hours of electrifying fun.

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Explore a thrilling series of mystifying mazes! It's a mighty long journey through the City of Lost Mazes, and there are plenty of challenges along the path! Ten full-color, double-page labyrinths transport puzzlists ages 8 and up from a crocodile-infested swamp to the heart of a great pyramid, where they'll have to outrun a flood of lava. Solutions included.

Dover Original.

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The Answer Key contains the answers to the exercises in the Classical Rhetoric Student Text by Martin Cothran (#6130 sold separately). Learn More

Classical Rhetoric is not one of those subjects that many parents have experience with, which is one reason why our customers have long been clamoring for an instructional DVD to go along with the course. Although Martin Cothran’s Classical Rhetoric is self-instructional, it is still nice to have the author helping your student through material that would otherwise be unfamiliar. In this DVD, Mr. Cothran takes the subject of persuasive communication and brings Aristotle’s principles to life by drawing on current events and his own experiences speaking and debating. For those homeschool parents and teacher who want some help teaching rhetoric, Classical Rhetoric is now available on DVD!

Memoria Press’ video course features Martin Cothran, author of the book, Classical Rhetoric: Aristotle’s Principles of Persuasion. These DVDs include Mr. Cothran’s verbal instructions on every aspect of the course, including supplementary exercises, and include helpful graphics slides to help explain the content. There are lectures for each lesson, plus an introduction and four case studies. The lesson lectures average 45 minutes each.

Used along with Classical Rhetoric, your new DVD course will enable you to bring a master teacher into your home.

This course is ideal for students from 9th grade to adult.

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Martin Cothran’s Classical Rhetoric with Aristotle is a guided tour through the first part of the greatest single book on communication ever written: Aristotle’s Rhetoric. With questions that will help the student unlock every important aspect of the book, along with fill-in-the-blank charts and analyses of great speeches, this companion text to Aristotle’s great work will send the student on a voyage of discovery from which he will return with a competent knowledge of the basic classical principles of speech and writing.

The Student Text contains exercises, questions, reading notes and more, centered around Aristotle’s Rhetoric, but also with review questions from Traditional Logic.

It also contains optional exercises for Arthur Quinn’s Figures of Speech

The answers are contained in the Answer Key (# 6131 sold separately).

178 pages

Grades 10-12

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Trusted by Families Worldwide - With over 50 million sold, ThinkFun is the world's leader in brain and logic games.

Develops critical skills – Playing through the challenges builds reasoning and planning skills and provides a great stealth learning experience for young players.

What you get – Code Master is the ultimate coding board game and STEM toy, and teaches programming logic through fun gameplay.

Contains 10 maps with 60 levels to solve, as well as 12 guide scrolls, 12 action tokens, 8 conditional tokens, and an instruction booklet with solutions included.

Clear instructions – Easy to learn with a clear, high quality instruction manual.

You can start playing immediately!

Comes with multi-level challenges - Code Master comes with 60 beginner to expert challenges that become increasingly difficult as you play through them.

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Meet the Coding Critters: your first coding friends! These playful puppy pets bring early STEM concepts to preschool learning through 100% screen-free coding. Kids code along with their new pets’ storybook adventure, and help the brave Ranger and mischievous Zip have a playtime they'll never forget!

Each storybook coding challenge unfolds in the Coding Critters' fun pet playset - can you code Ranger to play hide and seek, fetch a ball from the tennis ball launcher, or catch Zip after a ride down the slide?

In addition to following along with the storybook's coding challenges, you can also use the pet playset to design your own code games and more!

The Coding Critters also double as cute interactive pets - press Ranger's nose to activate Play Mode, where you can feed, pet, and take care of your new puppy robot pal! You can even make him dance and sing a silly song!

Ages 4 - 10

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Meet the Coding Critters: your first coding friends! These playful dino pets bring early STEM concepts to preschool learning through 100% screen-free coding. Kids code along with their new pets’ storybook adventure, and help the clumsy Rumble and bumbling Bumble have a playtime they'll never forget! Each storybook coding challenge unfolds in the Coding Critters' fun pet playset - can you code Rumble to play hide and seek, chase down a boulder from his volcano launcher, or knock over his break-apart cave? In addition to following along with the storybook's coding challenges, you can also use the pet playset to design your own code games and more! The Coding Critters also double as cute interactive pets - press Scamper's nose to activate Play Mode, where you can feed, pet, and take care of your new dino robot pal! You can even make her dance and sing a silly song!

Ages 4 - 10

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Meet the Coding Critters: your first coding friends!

These playful kitten pets bring early STEM concepts to preschool learning through 100% screen-free coding. Kids code along with their new pets’ storybook adventure, and help the curious Scamper and sneaky Sneaker have a playtime they'll never forget!

Each storybook coding challenge unfolds in the Coding Critters' fun pet playset - can you code Scamper to play hide and seek, catch the butterfly at the end of her cat toy, or catch Sneaker after a ride down the slide?

In addition to following along with the storybook's coding challenges, you can also use the pet playset to design your own code games and more!

The Coding Critters also double as cute interactive pets - press Scamper's nose to activate Play Mode, where you can feed, pet, and take care of your new kitten robot pal! You can even make her dance and sing a silly song!

Ages 4-10

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Half a Million Solutions, None of Them Easy!

Color Cube Sudoku

Flip the Cubes. Solve the Puzzle.

2017 Mensa Mind Games Competitor

Flip & rearrange all 9 Color Cubes on the 3 x 3 tray until each color appears once in every row and column.

It will take more than a couple flips of a cube to master this brilliant Sudoku puzzle.

Once you’ve conquered the traditional Sudoku pattern, give your brain a real workout with our fun Bonus Challenges!

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Color-matching fun for everyone! Place any card to start. Each card includes different combinations of up to four colors, so be sure to look at your cards closely. How many colors can you match with your next play? Match the most colors, and win! This addictive, make-you-think strategy game builds matching, critical thinking, and addition skills. Includes 40 cards and Activity Guide. Cards measure 3"H; box measures 4½" x 4½". For 2–6 players. Ages 5+ Learn More

The Cornell Critical Thinking Tests develop a clear picture of your students’ critical thinking abilities. The tests can be used to teach critical thinking skills, to predict students’ performance on your state proficiency exam, or for honors/AP programs, critical thinking courses, college admissions, careers, and employment.

PLEASE NOTE: The cover dipicted in this listing is different than the actual booklet, which is black and white/soft-bound.

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