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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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Balance Benders Series (Grades 2nd-12th+)

Grades: 2nd-12th+
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 (Grades 2nd-6th) by Robert Femiano
Balance Benders Level 1 (Grades 4th-12th+) by Robert Femiano
Balance Benders Level 2 (Grades 6th-12th+) by Robert Femiano
Balance Benders Level 3 (Grades 8th-12th+) by Robert Femiano

Building Thinking Skills (Grades PreK-12) -> ON SALE NOW

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 (Grades PreK-1st) -> ON SALE NOW

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 -> ON SALE NOW
Can You Find Me? K-1 -> ON SALE NOW

Creative Thinking Puzzlers Series -> ON SALE NOW

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 -> ON SALE
Dr. Funster's Creative Thinking Puzzlers B1 -> ON SALE
Dr. Funster's Creative Thinking Puzzlers C1 -> ON SALE

Critical Thinking Series -> ON SALE NOW

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

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.

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 PreK-1st)

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

James Madison Critical Thinking Course

James Madison Critical Thinking Course Student Book
James Madison Critical Thinking Course Guide

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 Puzzles

Deductive Thinking Skills Logic Puzzles - Books & Software
Grades: PreK - 12th+
Our best-selling 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 Book 1 (Grades PreK-K) - was Mind Benders Beginning Book 1
Mind Benders Beginning 1 Software (Grades PreK-Kindergarten)
Mind Benders Book 2 (Grades 1-2) - was Mind Benders Beginning Book 2
Mind Benders Beginning 2 Software (Grades 1-2)
Mind Benders Verbal (Grades K-2) - was Mind Benders Warm Up
Mind Benders 4-CD Software Set
Mind Benders Book 3 (Grades 3-6+) - Combined Mind Benders A1 & A2
Mind Benders A1-A2 Software
Mind Benders Book 4 (Grades 3-6+) - Combined Mind Benders A3 & A4
Mind Benders A3-A4 Software
Mind Benders Book 5 (Grades 7-12+) - Combined Mind Benders B1 & B2
Mind Benders B1-B2 Software
Mind Benders Book 6 (Grades 7-12+) - Combined Mind Benders B3 & B4
Mind Benders B3-B4 Software
Mind Benders Book 7 (Grades 7-12+) - Includes activities from the old Mind Benders C1 & C2
Mind Benders Book 8 (Grades 7-12+) - Includes activities from the old Mind Benders C2 & C3
Mind Benders A1 (Gr 3-6+) - NOW combined with Mind Benders A2 in the NEW Mind Benders Book 3
Mind Benders A2 (Gr 3-6+) - NOW combined with Mind Benders A1 in the NEW Mind Benders Book 3
Mind Benders A3 (Gr 3-6+) - NOW combined with Mind Benders A4 in the NEW Mind Benders Book 4
Mind Benders A4 (Gr 3-6+) -> ON SALE NOW
Mind Benders B1 (Gr 7-12+) - NOW combined with Mind Benders B2 in the NEW Mind Benders Book 5
Mind Benders B2 (Gr 7-12+) -> ON SALE NOW
Mind Benders B3 (Gr 7-12+) -> ON SALE NOW
Mind Benders B4 (Gr 7-12+) -> ON SALE NOW
Mind Benders C1 (Gr 7-12+) -> ON SALE NOW
Mind Benders C2 (Gr 7-12+) -> ON SALE NOW
Mind Benders C3 (Gr 7-12+) -> ON SALE NOW

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

Primary Analogies Book 1

Grade Level: Kindergarten to 1st
Primary Analogies, Book 1 begins with picture-to-picture analogies. Two pictures that have a special relationship are connected by a line in a frame containing six pictures. Students choose two other pictures from the frame that have the same relationship and connect them with a line.

$7.10

Primary Analogies Book 2

Grade Level: 2nd
Primary Analogies, Book 2 begins with picture-to-picture analogies. Two pictures that have a special relationship are connected by a line in a frame containing six pictures. Students choose two other pictures from the frame that have the same relationship and connect them with a line.

$7.60

Red Herring Mysteries (previously A Case of Red Herrings)

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 (A Case of Red Herrings A1 & A2 combined)
Red Herring Mysteries Level 2 (A Case of Red Herrings B1 & B2 combined)

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 (Grades 3-12+)

Think-A-Minutes Series

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

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 Animals A1
Thinker Doodles Half 'n Half Animals B1
Thinker Doodles 4-Book Set

Thinking Skills for Tests

All standardized tests measure the ability to think carefully and critically. This easy-to-use, fun product provides children with the opportunity to recognize how the critical thinking skills they already possess can be applied to a test. It also builds confidence by reducing the anxiety that can hinder children from performing their best on tests. Thinking Skills for Tests presents nine thinking skills that form the base of both verbal and nonverbal reasoning and logic.

Thinking Skills for Tests Student Workbook (Grades: PreK-2)
Thinking Skills for Tests Instruction/Answer Guide (Grades PreK-2)

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.

$14.95

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 B1 -> NOW ON SALE
Visual Mind Benders C1 -> NOW ON SALE

Visual Perceptual Skill Building Series (Gr PreK-4th) -> ON SALE

Builds Visual, Motor, and Critical Thinking Skills
Grades: PreK - 4th
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 -> ON SALE
Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 2 -> ON SALE
Visual Perceptual Skill Building 1 Book-on-CD -> ON SALE
Visual Perceptual Skill Building 2 Book-on-CD -> ON SALE

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