Introduce younger students to logical thinking with this attractive workbook. Reproducible worksheets and group lessons provide practice in relationships, analogies, thinking logically using "all" and "no" statements, syllogisms, and deductive reasoning. Logical thinking is both enjoyable and challenging for students as they build a sound foundation for further instruction in critical thinking. Grades 2-4.

Primarily Logic (Grades 2-4)

Children's Books

Judy Leimbach

Education & Reference

Dandy Lion Publications

Attractive reproducible worksheets introduce younger students to all the skills they will need in order to become successful library users. Informative, creative materials give students developmental lessons in parts of a book, alphabetical order, dictionaries, encyclopedias, finding books in the library, and more. These are skills and information that students will use throughout their school careers. Grades 2-4

Primarily Reference Skills

Prufrock Press

Educators realize that students need more than instruction in reading, spelling, and arithmetic. They recognize the need for students at all grade levels to be actively engaged in learning how to think. Mere acquisition of knowledge is not enough if our schools are to successfully prepare students for the future. Primarily Thinking is a foundation for building critical thinking skills that will serve students in all areas of the curriculum and in real-life situations. It offers practice in six essential thinking skills that will get students' brain cells jumping: 
<ul>
<li>comparing and contrasting, </li>
<li>classification, </li>
<li>fact and opinion, </li>
<li>cause and effect, </li>
<li>patterns, and </li>
<li>sequencing. </li>
</ul> Each skill is presented in a series of interesting reproducible worksheets. At the end of each section, there are additional activities for the teacher to use to provide further practice in applying thinking skills in all areas of the curriculum. Once students have mastered a basic understanding of these skills, they will be able to develop the skills on a more advanced level. As students get older, they should be able to apply these same skills with more complex and abstract situations, information, problems, and concepts. Given these skills, students will be more adequately prepared to deal with life situations in a logical, rational manner than if they have only been taught to digest information. These thinking skills are crucial to thoughtful living. These activities are closely linked to the Creative Problem Solving process. For more activities on CPS, refer to Primarily Problem Solving and Creative Problem Solving: An Introduction. Grades 2–3

Primarily Thinking, Grades 2-3

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Discovering the way people in ancient cultures conducted their lives is fascinating for young people, and learning how these people counted and calculated is a part of understanding these cultures. This book offers a concise, but thorough, introduction to ancient number systems. Students won't just learn to count like the ancient Greeks; they'll learn about the number systems of the Mayans, Babylonians, Egyptians, Romans, and Hindu-Arabic cultures, and also about quinary and binary systems. Symbols and rules regarding the use of the symbols in each number system are introduced and demonstrated with examples. Activity pages provide problems for the students to apply their understanding of each system. Can You Count in Greek? is a great resource for math, as well as a supplement for social studies units on ancient civilizations. This valuable resource builds understanding of place value, number theory, and reasoning. It includes everything you need to easily incorporate these units in math or social studies classes. Whether you use all of the units or a selected few, your students will gain a better understanding and appreciation of our number system.

Can You Count in Greek?: Exploring Ancient Number Systems, Grades 5-8

Kathy Leimbach

Routledge

Go beyond the regular curriculum with these units to challenge your more able primary grade math students. With their ease of use, clear instructions, and motivating topics, these are the perfect enrichment activities for the regular math curriculum. This book contains four units that are structured so that students can easily develop an understanding of the topics on their own. The four topics are:
<ul>
<li>attribute pattern blocks, </li>
<li>tangrams, </li>
<li>sets and Venn diagrams, and </li>
<li>ancient Egyptian numbers.</li>
</ul>Each unit provides sequential activities that allow students to work through these motivating topics, whether they are working by themselves, in a small group, or in a whole-class setting. The units lend themselves easily to a math center arrangement with each student having an individual folder and checklist to record his or her progress. While they were designed to provide added challenge for students who have mastered the regular curriculum, some of the units can be used as supplements for whole-class instruction. The emphasis in these units is on promoting thinking, developing perseverance, expanding students' view of mathematics, enjoying a challenge, and keeping math students actively involved and enthused about math. This book will help you provide students with opportunities to explore mathematical ideas in ways that promote their intellectual growth and expand their views of mathematics.

Enrichment Units in Math: Book 1, Grades 2-3

Go beyond the regular curriculum with these units to challenge your more able intermediate grade math students. With their ease of use, clear instructions, and motivating topics, these are the perfect enrichment activities for the regular math curriculum. This book contains four units that are structured so that students can easily develop an understanding of the topics on their own. The four topics are:
<ul>
<li>permutations and combinations, </li>
<li>tessellations, </li>
<li>line drawings, and </li>
<li>graphing.</li>
</ul> Each unit provides sequential activities that allow students to work through these motivating topics, whether they are working by themselves, in a small group, or in a whole-class setting. The units lend themselves easily to a math center arrangement with each student having an individual folder and checklist to record his or her progress. While they were designed to provide added challenge for students who have mastered the regular curriculum, some of the units can be used as supplements for whole-class instruction. The emphasis in these units is on promoting thinking, developing perseverance, expanding students' view of mathematics, enjoying a challenge, and keeping math students actively involved and enthused about math. This book will help you provide students with opportunities to explore mathematical ideas in ways that promote their intellectual growth and expand their views of mathematics.

Enrichment Units in Math (Book 2 - Grades 4-6)

Dianne Draze

It's never too early to start building thinking skills―skills that will spill over into other areas of the curriculum and into real life. Primarily Logic consists of a series of units designed to introduce logical thinking to young students. It is an excellent, easy-to-use starting point for teaching well-established forms of logical thinking. Each skill is introduced with examples, and then worksheets give students an opportunity to practice the skill. Group lessons and worksheets provide practice in: 
<ul>
<li>finding relationships, </li>
<li>analogies, </li>
<li>thinking logically using "all" and "none" statements, </li>
<li>syllogisms, and </li>
<li>deductive reasoning using logic puzzles. </li>
</ul> Logical thinking is both enjoyable and challenging for students as they build a sound foundation for further instruction in critical thinking. Suggestions for related activities are included in the Instructions for Teachers section.

Primarily Logic, Grades 2-4

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Children are curious. And animals are fascinating. This exciting text builds on students' natural curiosity about animals to provide opportunities for structured research. Primarily Research eases primary students into the role of researchers by providing them with motivating topics and stimulating questions. 
Each of the 8 units presents a different animal or pair of animals including moths, butterflies, lions, tigers, koalas, kangaroos, elephants, frogs, toads, sharks, gorillas, giraffes, and penguins. The research activities in each unit take students beyond simply finding information. Students must also apply information, analyze facts, make comparisons, and draw conclusions. In addition to fact-finding activities, there are questions requiring critical thinking, deductive reasoning, and creative thinking. 
This book is very complimentary with Primarily Reference Skills to give your students the entire library and research experience. 
Grades 1-3

Primarily Research

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Get ready for an explosion of creative thought when you use the ideas in this book. After an introduction to the four areas of creative thought (fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration) and tasks to stimulate these particular skills, this power-packed text gives students a variety of situations that integrate these skills. Use this as your entire creativity course or as periodic thought provokers. Grades 4-7.

Imagination Celebration - Creativity Exercises

Dandy Lion Pubns

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

Enrichment Units in Math, Book 1 (Grades 2-3)

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