Critical Thinking Activities In Patterns Imagery Logic

... 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 ...

This book (170 pages), from Dale Seymour, contains activities to help students develop their maths thinking and problem-solving skills. This book concentrates on three specific types of thinking skills: patterns, imagery and logic. Table of contents: * Introduction * Part 1: Patterns * Part 2: Imagery * Part 3: Logic * Answers.

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.

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.

Lollipop Logic employs visual and pictorial clues to introduce and reinforce high-powered thinking for pre-readers. Seven different thinking skills—relationships, analogies, sequences, deduction, inference, pattern decoding, and critical analysis—are presented in a format designed to appeal to gifted young learners. This straightforward, one-of-a-kind tool gives wings to pre-readers and non-readers who are ready for a challenge but don’t yet have the reading skills for more traditional critical thinking activities. Now with full-color illustrations, this beloved classic has been fully updated with refreshed activities, images, and text to help young learners continue to soar into the stratosphere of thinking skills far beyond their reading levels.

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.

Research supports the premise that students learn most quickly when they are provided instruction that requires a variety of creative and critical thinking skills, study techniques, and metacognitive strategies. Each quick, little- or no-prep activity in this packet utilizes these skills and strategies. Students will be asked to answer ?What if?? questions, think fast, define patterns, give and interpret clues, and more! The critical thinking games and activities can be used as individual assignments or as class tasks, or they can be used as competitions between groups to reinforce skills or concepts.