Detailed Product Description
Develops vocabulary, reading, mathematical reasoning, and analytical skills. 259 activities, 280 pages.
Building Thinking Skills provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve students' vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment.
Methods
The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Students learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they:
- Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics.
- Distinguish similarities and differences.
- Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies
These processes help students develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects.
Teaching Support
Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is now included.
Table of Contents/Skills
Chapter One--Figural Similarities and Differences
Matching Figures
Which Figure Does Not Match?
Finding and Tracing Patterns
Finding Shapes
Combining Shapes
Recombining Shapes
What Shape Complete the Square?
Completing the Square with Two Shapes
Matching Congruent Figures
Which Figure Is Not Congruent?
Recognizing Congruent Parts
Identifying Congruent Parts
Dividing Shapes into Congruent Parts
Congruence and Similarity
Matching Similar Figures
Identifying Similarity and Congruence
Producing Similar Figures--Enlarging
Producing Similar Figures--Reducing
Identifying Enlargement and Reduction
Using Larger Grids to Enlarge Figures
Using Smaller Grids to Reduce figures
Recognizing Lines of Symmetry
Drawing Lines of Symmetry
Producing Symmetrical Figures
Drawing Multiple Lines of Symmetry
Covering a Surface
Producing Similar Figures by Tessellation
Drawing Tessellating Patterns
Polyominoes
How Many Cubes Make Up the Solid?
Matching Volume
Recognizing Volume
Identifying Congruent Solids
Matching Congruent Solids
Recognizing Views of a Solid
Combining Solids
Complete the Cube with One Piece
Chapter Two--Figural Sequences
Sequence of Figures--Select
Sequence of Figures--Supply
Rotating Figures--Find the Exception
Rotating Figures--Supply
Rotating Figures--Explain
Producing Single Reflections
Multiple Reflections--Supply
Rotation and Reflection--Supply
Explaining Rotation or Reflection
Paper Folding--Select
Paper Folding--Supply
Two-Axis Paper Folding--Select
Two-Axis Paper Folding--Supply
Pattern Folding--Select
Pattern Folding--Matching
Selecting Pattern Pieces
Matching Pattern Pieces
Produce a Pattern
Folding Cube Patterns--Select
Folding Cube Patterns--Supply
Rotating Cubes--Select
Rotating Cubes--Describe
Rotating Cubes--Supply
Chapter Three--Figural Classifications
Describing Classes
Matching Classes
Classifying More than One Way--Matching
Changing Characteristics--Select
Describing Characteristics
Changing Characteristics--Supply
Draw Another
Classifying by Pattern--Sorting
Classifying More Than One Way--Sorting
Classifying by Shape--Sorting
Discovering Classes
Overlapping Classes--Intersections
Overlapping Classes--Matrix
Deduce the Class
Chapter Four--Figural Analogies
Figural Analogies--Select
Figural Analogies--Select a Pair
Describing Types of Figural Analogies
Complete the Pair
Figural Analogies--Supply
Figural Analogies--Follow the Rule
Figural Analogies--Supply a Pair
Figural Analogies--Select the Solid
Figural Analogies--Select the Cube
