Metropolitan Achievement Test Eighth Edition (MAT 8)

Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension
Grades: 3rd - 12th
Uses Standards-based higher-order thinking activities to develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills required for exceptional reading comprehension.
Avaliable in books or software!

Higher Order Thinking Standards-Based Math
Grades: 3rd - 8th
Engaging story problems use topic and skills drawn from national math standards. Prepare students for more advanced math courses and assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in math.
Available in Books and Software.

Teaches standards-based science as it develops reading, writing, and critical thinking skills!
Grades: 3rd - 6th
Uses topics and skills drawn from national science standards to prepare children for more advanced science courses and new assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in science.
Students read lessons that include a charts, tables, and graphs, then they answer critical thinking questions to improve understanding of science concepts and develop reading comprehension, and inferential and deductive 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

Grades: PreK - 9th
Bridges the gap between computation and mathematical reasoning for higher grades and top test scores. Highly effective activities take students far beyond drill-and-practice by using step-by-step, discussion-based problem solving.

Grades: 6th - 12th+
Makes history fresh, relevant, and real! These books-on-cd use fascinating original source documents and discussion-based critical thinking methods to help children evaluate conflicting perspectives of historical events. Each Instruction/Answer Guide includes a course-end test and suggested solutions.
Printed Books and Books-on-CD available. Printable PDF includes Instruction/Answer Guides and Student Text.
Recommended by The Well-Trained Mind.

Grades: 6th - 12th
With You Decide! court is in session. The honorable “judges,” your students, will be asked to rule on 75 actual U.S. Supreme Court cases based on the first eight amendments to the Constitution. Students will sharpen their critical thinking skills and their legal and historical knowledge as they analyze the amendments, discover their origins, and rule on actual cases presented before the U.S. Supreme Court.