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Critical Thinking, Logic & Reasoning Skills

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What is Critical Thinking? Critical thinking is identifying and evaluating evidence to guide decision making. A critical thinker uses in-depth analysis of evidence to make decisions and communicate his or her beliefs clearly and accurately. Deeper analysis produces deeper understanding, resulting in better grades, higher test scores, and lifetime critical thinking skills.

Critical thinking helps students analyze, synthesize, and apply what they learn. The more students think about what they are learning, the more students understand what they are learning.

Critical thinking doesn’t just guarantee academic success, it prepares children for the countless challenges they will encounter throughout their lives. Our Brain Building Fun products do not teach through drill and memorization, they develop critical thinking and cognitive skills and improve standards-based learning. Our thinking approach makes learning fun, motivating and effective.

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Academic Challenge Cup

5000 Essential Knowledge Questions Across the Curriculum
Grades: 6th - 12th+
Teaches and tests essential knowledge in literature, language, math, science, history, geography, and the arts necessary for superior achievement in school and beyond. Children analyze and answer beginning, intermediate, and advanced scholastic trivia questions. As they check their answers, children are provided with more details about each answer for additional learning and reinforcement.

Academic Challenge Cup

Balance Benders Series

Logic and Algebraic Reasoning Puzzles
Use these books as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Children develop deductive thinking and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are more fun and addictive than Sudoku puzzles!

Balance Benders Beginning Level
Balance Benders Level 1
Balance Benders Level 2
Balance Benders Level 3

Building Thinking Skills

Prepare Children for State & National Assessment Tests, Cognitive Abilities Tests, & Gifted (GATE) Exams
Grades: PreK - 12th+
The #1-selling thinking skills program in the world! Highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities improve students' vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural spatial skills as well as their visual, motor, analytical reasoning, and auditory processing skills. (Books & Software)
Test preparation - guarantees top performance on assessment tests and GATE exams!
Multiple award winner, including Creative Child Seal of Excellence award and the Cathy Duffy Top 100

Can You Find Me? Riddles Series

Building Thinking Skills with Riddles - Associative Reasoning
Grades: PreK - 1st
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. 112 full-color pages per book.

Can You Find Me? PreK
Can You Find Me? K-1

Creative Thinking Puzzlers Series

Grades: 3rd - 12th
Value-priced, Dr. Funster books contain collections of our most popular quick, fun thinking puzzles and games. Helps your children become fluent, flexible problem solvers who can generate different solutions and different ways to find solutions.

Dr. Funster's Creative Thinking Puzzlers A1
Dr. Funster's Creative Thinking Puzzlers B1
Dr. Funster's Creative Thinking Puzzlers C1

Critical Thinking Series

Problem Solving, Reasoning, Logic, and Arguments
Grades: 7th - 12th
Teaches students to think logically. Students learn to identify valid and invalid claimsand aguments, sufficient and insufficient efidence, fact and opinion, generalizations, emotional arguments, inferences, deductions, and more. Instruction/Answer guides sold separately.
Recommended by The Well Trained Mind

Critical Thinking Book One
Critical Thinking Book One Instruction/Answer Guide
Critical Thinking Book Two
Critical Thinking Book Two Instruction/Answer Guide
Critical Thinking 4-Book Set

Daily Mind Builders

Grades: 5 - 12+
Subject: Language Arts, Science, & Social Studies
In addition to waking up sleepy brains for the day's lessons, these short, fun daily activity pages develop the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill assessed on standardized reading tests. This comprehension skill usually determines a child's reading score, and every Daily Mind Builders page develops this skill.

Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts
Daily Mind Builders: Science
Daily Mind Builders: Social Studies

Dr. Funster's Critical Thinking Books and Software

Quick, Fun Thinking Activities
Grades: 2nd - 8th
A collection of our most popular quick, fun thinking puzzles and games develop a variety of critical and creative thinking skills. Activities include language development, math, writing, visual, spatial, and perceptual skills.

Think-A-Minutes Series
Creative Thinking Puzzlers Series
Visual Mind Benders Books and Software

Fallacy Detective, The Thinking Toolbox, and Logic in 100 Minutes

by Nathaniel Bluedorn and Hans Bluedorn
Ages: 13 - Adult
Fallacy Detective, The Thinking Toolbox, and Logic in 100 Minutes are a fun, easy way for you to lay the foundation for your child's logic, reasoning, and critical thinking. How to Recognize Bad Logic and Reasoning. What is a fallacy? Tools to Build Your Reasoning Skills.

The Fallacy Detective
The Thinking Toolbox
Logic in 100 Minutes Workshop DVD

Get Me Out of Here Software Series

Helps Students Organize Thinking and Writing
Grades: 4th - 12th
Get Me Out of Here! improves reading comprehension, writing, mental organization, planning ahead, attention to detail, mapping, and visual-spatial sense.
California Instructional Technology Award

Get Me Out of Here A1 Software
Get Me Out of Here B1 Software
Get Me Out of Here Software 2-CD Set

Hands-On Thinking Skills

Grades: Kindergarten - 1st
The #1-selling thinking skills program in the world! Highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities improve students' vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural spatial skills as well as their visual, motor, analytical thinking, and auditory processing skills.
Test preparation - guarantees top performance on assessment tests and GATE exams!
Multiple award winner, including Creative Child Seal of Excellence award and the Cathy Duffy Top 100

Hands-On Thinking Book and Manipulative Set (Grades K-1st)
Hands-On Thinking Skills (Grades K-1st)
Interlocking Cubes (Hard Plastic)

Learning on Purpose

Teaches students to overcome study challenges and become successful learners.
Grades: 7 - 12+
A self-management approach to study skills, this book develops methods of effective organization, time management, comprehension and memory skills, and test-taking strategies.
"Recommended!" - The Well Trained Mind

Learning on Purpose

Memory Challenge

Improve visual perception and memory skills
Grades: K - 12th+
Enhance visual perception and memory for reading and math! This is an easy-to-use but very powerful program for developing and testing visual memory skills.

Memory Challenge Software

Mind Benders Series

Deductive Thinking Skills Logic Puzzles - Books & Software
Grades: PreK - 12th+
Our bestselling deductive thinking puzzles develop logic, reading comprehension, and mental organization skills vital to achieving higher grades and top test scores in all subjects. They are also great for improving real-life problem-solving skills.
Multiple award winner, including the Practical Homeschooling Logic Award and the Cathy Duffy Top 100.

Mind Benders Beginning Book 1
Mind Benders Beginning 1 Software
Mind Benders Beginning Book 2
Mind Benders Beginning 2 Software (Grades 1-2)
Mind Benders Warm Up
Mind Benders A1
Mind Benders A2
Mind Benders A3
Mind Benders A4
Mind Benders A1-A2 Software
Mind Benders A3-A4 Software
Mind Benders B1
Mind Benders B2
Mind Benders B3
Mind Benders B4
Mind Benders B1-B2 Software
Mind Benders B3-B4 Software
Mind Benders C1
Mind Benders C2
Mind Benders C3
Mind Benders 14-Book Set (PreK-12th Grade)
Mind Benders 7-Book Set (PreK-6th Grade)
Mind Benders 7-Book Set (7th-12th Grade)
Mind Benders 4-CD Software Set

Organizing Thinking Series

Improves content learning as it develops critical thinking and effective learning strategies!
Grades: 2nd - 8th
Writing, Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and Science
Lessons integrate content instruction, critical thinking, and graphic organizers to help students:

Simplify, understand, and remember information

Develop deeper learning connections

Organize and manage their own thinking and learning

Organizing Thinking Book 1
Organizing Thinking Book 2
Organizing Thinking Book 1 Graphic Organizers on CD
Organizing Thinking Book 2 Graphic Organizers on CD

Red Herring Mysteries

Solving Mysteries Through Critical Questioning
Grades: 4th - 12th
Children learn to think beyond the literal meaning! Funny mysteries develop inferential and deductive reasoning for more effective reading, listening, and logical thinking. Encourages creative brainstorming and flexible thinking.

Red Herring Mysteries Level 1
Red Herring Mysteries Level 2

Revenge of the Logic Spiders

Logical thinking in a fun game of chase and escape!
Grades: 6th - 12th+
Helps students apply deeper levels of comprehension and logic to schoolwork, standardized assessments, and aptitude tests. Fun, challenging, and effective independent learning program that sharpens reasoning and comprehension. Each possible answer must be read and analyzed carefully. Only correct inferences and deductions allow students to escape hungry spiders.

$19.99

Think-A-Grams - Verbal Picture Puzzles

Verbal Picture Puzzles develop visual-verbal thinking.
Grades: 4 - 12+
Popular picture puzzles bring together students' logical/objective (left-brain) and random/subjective (right-brain) thinking to sharpen their language usage and visual skills. Students analyze the way words are written (e.g., size, position, direction) to solve each puzzle using common idioms and words.

Think-A-Grams A1
Think-A-Grams A2
Think-A-Grams B1
Think-A-Grams C1
Think-A-Grams C2
Think-A-Grams 4-Book Set

Think Ahead Games

Grades: 3rd - 12th+
Think Ahead Games strengthens skills in sequencing, classifying, comparing/contrasting, evaluating alternatives, generating solutions, and recognizing patterns. Using either figures or numbers, students practice their mental mapping ability in order to outmaneuver their opponent. Adjustable difficulty settings make the software fun and challenging for kids and adults.

Think Ahead Games Software

Think-A-Minutes Series

Dr. Funster's Think-A-Minutes A1
Dr. Funster's Think-A-Minutes A2
Dr. Funster's Think-A-Minutes B1
Dr. Funster's Think-A-Minutes B2
Dr. Funster's Think-A-Minutes C1
Dr. Funster's Think-A-Minutes C2
Think-A-Minutes 6-Book Set

Thinker Doodles Series

Develops creative and critical thinking and attention to detail.
Grades: PreK - 4th
Activities develop a wide variety of thinking skills as they engage your child in drawing and coloring. More fun than mindless coloring books, Thinker Doodles develop organized analysis and motor skills needed for success in reading, writing, and math. These quick, fun activities can be used in the classroom, after school, at home, and on trips to stimulate developing minds.

Thinker Doodles Clues and Choose Beginning
Thinker Doodles Clues and Choose A1
Thinker Doodles Half 'n Half A1
Thinker Doodles Half 'n Half Animals B1
Thinker Doodles 4-Book Set

Thinking Parent, Thinking Child: How to Turn Your Most Challenging Everyday Problems into Solutions

Bring harmony to your house by building your children's problem-solving skills!
Thinking Parent,Thinking Child will help you guide your children in the use of ICPS to come up with their own solutions to more than 100 of the most common problems, including being a sore loser, acting aggressively, having trouble with friendships or teachers, or experiencing a major loss.

Regular price: $14.95

Sale price: $9.95

Visual Mind Benders Books and Software

Jump-start students' visual logic skills!
Visual Mind Benders® tests and improves students' trial-and-error and deductive reasoning as they determine fi nal solutions to these intriguing puzzles. Clues help students deduce which objects from each row will appear in the answer. As they analyze each row and try possible solutions, they must check to make sure they've met all criteria given in the clues. These activities are a great follow-up to verbal Mind Benders®.

Visual Mind Benders A1
Visual Mind Benders B1
Visual Mind Benders C1
Dr. Funster's Visual Mind Benders® B1 Software

Visual Perceptual Skill Building Series

Builds Visual, Motor, and Critical Thinking Skills
Grades: PreK - 3rd
Quick activities develop students' recognition of lettes, words, numbers, and similar/dissimilar objects. Improves sequencing and visual memory skills. Includes eight progressively sequenced skill sections with pretests and post tests to evaluate students' beginning and ending skill levels. Available in books or books-on-CD!

Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 1
Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 2
Visual Perceptual Skill Building 1 Book-on-CD
Visual Perceptual Skill Building 2 Book-on-CD

What Would You Do? - Moral Delimmas Series

Critical Thinking applied to real-life moral dilemmas
Grades: 2nd - 12th+
Gives students the opportunity to apply their moral values to real-life moral dilemmas. These problems are wonderful for family or class discussion problems that develop critical thinking skills and explore character-building issues.
Concepts/Skills: Self-Reflection, Reading Comprehension, Organized Analysis, Compare and Contrast, Identification of Assumptions, Respect, Empathy, Responsibility, Perserverance, Courage, Integrity, Self-Discipline

What Would You Do? Book 1
What Would You Do? Book 2