The perfect starting point for introducing students to   deductive reasoning skills.Your students will have hours of endless   fun with these imaginative puzzles that sharpen deductive reasoning   skills and strengthen the ability to sort through information and   make connections. Each reproducible puzzle includes an attention-getting   introduction, clues, grid, and clever illustration. Capture student's   attention and challenge their intellectual talents with this first-rate   series. Grades 2-4.

Connections, Introductory

Children's Books

Bonnie Lou Risby

Education & Reference

Dandy Lion Pubns

Here's the ultimate challenge! Everyday occasions become the basis for complicated connections. Your students will have hours of endless fun with these imaginative puzzles that sharpen deductive reasoning skills and strengthen the ability to sort through information and make connections. Each reproducible puzzle includes an attention-getting introduction, clues, grid, and clever illustration. Capture student's attention and challenge their intellectual talents with this first-rate series. Grades 5-8.

Connections, Advanced

Imaginative logic puzzles are the pinnacle of this classic series designed to sharpen deductive reasoning skills and strengthen the ability to sort through information by formulating connections. Created with the classroom teacher in mind, these puzzles are both intriguing and easy to fit into lesson plans for the gifted and talented, as well as many main course curriculums. Designed for teachers frustrated with complicated logic exercises that are beyond the scope of one class period, the Connections puzzles are formatted for success within 50-minute pullout programs. Each puzzle includes an introduction, clues, grid, and an illustration. Many educators have found Connections the best exercise to introduce deductive reasoning skills while enhancing enthusiasm. Exercises are simple to use and gradually present ever-increasing challenges. The thinking skills introduced dovetail easily into other aspects of the curriculum. Capture students' attention and challenge their intellectual talents with this first-rate series.

Connections: Activities for Deductive Thinking (Beginning, Grades 3-4)

Routledge

An analogy is a comparison between two things. It points out the similarities between two things that might be different in all other respects. Analogies cause us to think analytically about forms, uses, structures, and relationships. This all-time favorite resource not only gives students a chance to practice solving analogies, but also invites them to open their minds to a completely new way of analyzing the elements of analogies. Each page introduces several categories of analogies. Each category expands students' way of viewing the world and contrasting and comparing elements. Thinking Through Analogies also instills the tools whereby students can create relationships to enhance their creative and formal writing, as well as to heighten their critical thinking in test taking.

Thinking Through Analogies, Grades 3-6

Logic problems are a surefire way of engaging your brightest students in critical thinking and problem solving, and the puzzles in "Logic on Meadow Brook Lane" are no exception. Students who love the thrill of solving logic puzzles will enjoy more than 20 puzzles in this book, which follows the activities of eight friends who live in the community of Meadow Brook as they take part in a variety of projects and events in their neighborhood. Students will learn to solve the puzzles related to the friends' adventures by gathering clues and organizing them using logic grids, deductive reasoning, analytical thinking, the process of elimination, and critical thinking. Students will want to keep coming back for more of these fun and challenging puzzles.

Logic on Meadow Brook Lane (Grades 5-8)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Prufrock Press

Analogy Roundup (Grades 4-7)

Dandy Lion Publications

Using Critical Thinking to Solve ProblemsHave your students join J. R. and Ryan as they become amateur detectives aiding Officer Oscar Matthews in solving one of the most intriguing cases to hit Brody s Landing in years. Like J. R. and Ryan, your young detectives will gather clues and organize them in a logic grid, using both paper and pencil and game boards with game pieces. The Great Honey Robbery is not a simple case; many lesser mysteries must fall into place before the villains can be brought to justice . . .-What can the boys report to Officer Matthews about the time of the honey robbery?-Who reports mysterious happenings?-Who wears which size shoe? And whose shoe matches the footprints?-Does everyone who was treated for bee stings have an alibi?-What did Ross and Mason observe from the hot air balloon on the day of the robbery?-Where did the blackberry stains lead?-Whose raft crossed the river?-Whose signature was on the laundry receipt?Students use critical thinking, deductive reasoning, analytical thinking, the process of elimination, logic puzzles, and a time line.

The Great Honey Robbery - Using Critical Thinking to Solve Problems

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