... Presents activities to help students develop their thinking and problem-solving skills. Mathematics curriculum specialists have identified from ten to fifteen strategies that can help students solve nonroutine math problems. Often students may need to use more than one such strategy to arrive at the solution for a given problem. Some of these strategies require that students use skills such as thinking visually, recognizing patterns, using logical reasoning, and doing organized counting ...

Activities to help students develop three important elements of critical thinking in mathematics: recognizing patterns, using visual imagery, and logical reasoning. -- Pattern activities -- working as detectives to discern mystery numbers and numerical patterns -- Imagery activities -- using the imagination to explore symmetry, congruence, rotation, part-whole relations, similarity, mapping -- Logic problems -- finding winning strategies, applying deductive logic, solving number sentences, and classifying by attributes Blackline masters with answers keys.

Encourage students to use critical thinking skills to evaluate, then solve, a variety of math enrichment problems. Topics include number theory, geometry, mathematical reasoning, sequencing and patterning, order of operations, algebra, spatial visualization, transformations, and more. Includes many open-ended and non-traditoinal problems to boost brain power in math.

What a tantalizing treat for young minds! Different thinking skills—relationships, analogies, sequences, deduction, inference, pattern decoding, and critical analysis—are presented in a format designed to appeal to the prereader. Visual and pictorial clues are used to introduce and reinforce high-powered thinking. Unfettered by their lack of reading ability, young minds experience exciting forays into critical thinking skills. With the new Lollipop Logic Book 2, prereaders, along with readers of all skill levels, can embark on an adventure of high-powered thinking using visual and pictorial clues. Each reproducible provides motivating exercises in a user-friendly format. Now, even very young children can cultivate critical thinking skills.

Sharpen fifth graders' critical-thinking skills with these brain-teasing activities. Parents, students, and teachers will love these fun challenges, puzzles, and logical thinking pages. They're a great way to practice higher-order thinking skills.