Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking Books and Games
Educators know that it is not only important for students to learn information, but it is also important for them to think about what the information means. Critical thinking books, workbooks, and games help students learn to interpret information and increase understanding.
Critical Thinking Books
Books containing analogies, story problems, and mind builders help students make comparisons and draw conclusions while relating information to the world around them. When they put books like Teacher Created Resources’ Analogies for Critical Thinking, Carson Dellosa’s Solve Story Problems Using Pictures, and Evan-Moor’s Critical and Creative Thinking Activities to use, they may be required to apply what they know about objects to form an analogy, visualize how to solve an equation that could arise in everyday life, or imagine a solution to a problem they have yet to encounter.
Critical Thinking Workbooks and Games
Encouraging students to depart from routine ways of encountering information and solving problems can help them exercise their minds in new ways. Different from reading textbook chapters, completing skill and drill activities, or even listening to lectures, are the workbooks and games offered here to stimulate critical thinking. The Plexers and Plexers Workbooks by Pearson Learning each contain a series of puzzles with clues that students must crack to solve pictorial codes for words and phrases. Whether used on their own or as a warm-up activity for vocabulary or reading activities, the puzzles require students to approach acquiring information from a new direction that requires a different type of interpretation.
Critical thinking games can be incorporated into classrooms as supplements or substitutes for other teaching methods. For example, the You’ve Been Sentenced Card Game by McNeill Designs could complement sentence diagramming activities because it requires students to create grammatical and logical sentences from its unique word deck. In addition to being used in classrooms, these games make great educational tools for home use. Before they reach school age, students can enjoy games such as the Pattern Play Blocks from Mindware that teach them motor, sorting, matching, and other skills. Once students have reached school age and even after they have grown beyond school age, they can continue to enjoy and benefit from increasingly complex critical thinking games.
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IQ Twist Game 1-Player Puzzle Game - SG-488
Smartgames®
$22.36From SmartGames, the worldwide leader in single player puzzle games, comes IQ Twist. To solve each challenge players fill in the board with all of the pieces as shown in the included booklet, making sure that all of the colored pieces fit on the...$22.36Qty in Cart: 0Price:$22.36Subtotal: -
IQ Stars - SG-411
Smartgames®
$22.36A great introduction to SmartGames IQ series – but also challenging enough to test our most seasoned players! SmartGames IQ Stars features 120 challenges. Players are tested to fit all the 3D star pieces on the gameboard – creating a colorful galaxy! And...$22.36Qty in Cart: 0Price:$22.36Subtotal: -
(2 EA) MIND BENDERS VERBAL GR K-2
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$30.35This 48-page book contains several of our verbal deductive thinking puzzles. Unlike our other Mind Benders products, these puzzles are read to students, so they develop the logic, listening, mental organization, and memory skills vital to achieving...$30.35Qty in Cart: 0Price:$30.35Subtotal: -
Cats & Boxes Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$27.36These cats love hiding in boxes! Move the puzzle pieces – one by one – until all of the cats are in a cardboard box. Can you help them find their favorite hiding spot? This sequential puzzle game for kids and adults comes with a portable gameboard and...$27.36 -
Temple Trap - SG-437US
Smartgames®
$27.36From SmartGames, the worldwide leader in single player puzzle games, comes Temple Trap. Avoid the alligators and other dangerous traps as you navigate your adventurer out of this shifting temple, flexing your logic muscles in this unique, beautifully...$27.36 -
Asteroid Escape Puzzle Game - SG-426US
Smartgames®
$27.36Can you navigate your spaceship through an asteroid field? Your flying skills will be tested to the limit in order to escape! SmartGames Asteroid Escape is a galactic sliding puzzle with 60 missions, from beginner to expert. Includes a game board with...$27.36 -
KEVA Brain Builders Junior
Keva
$29.32KEVA® Brain Builders Junior will train brains to think in a whole new dimension- a great first step towards STEM. Features photos of fun, recognizable objects to replicate-letters, numbers, the sun, dragonfly and more! The set includes 20 KEVA planks,...$29.32 -
Mind Benders, Beginning Book 2, Grades 1-2
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$21.36Mind Benders®, our best-selling deductive thinking puzzles, develop the logic, reading comprehension, and mental organization skills vital to achieving high grades and top test scores in all subjects. They're also great for developing real-life, problem...$21.36Qty in Cart: 0Price:$21.36Subtotal: -
Skill Sharpeners Critical Thinking, Grade 1
Evan-moor Educational Publishers
$21.36Foster your first grader's critical thinking skills and see confidence soar! Children are naturally inquisitive from infancy, yet creative and problem-solving skills need to be nurtured as children grow. Like reading and math skills, critical thinking...$21.36Qty in Cart: 0Price:$21.36Subtotal: -
Penguins on Ice Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$24.99From SmartGames, the worldwide leader in single player puzzle games, comes Penguins on Ice. Penguins on Ice is an award-winning, completely unique game based on ancient Greek Pentomino...featuring puzzle pieces that shift in order to fit into place!...$24.99 -
Mini Mysteries Book, Grades 3-6
Remedia Publications
$22.36Reluctant readers of all ages are sure to have fun while they improve their reading sills with Mini Mysteries. Kids love a good mystery, and they won't be disappointed with the 26 "who-dunits" detective Sam Sherlock encounters in this reading...$22.36Qty in Cart: 0Price:$22.36Subtotal: -
Secret Code
Quercetti®
$31.60A strategy game for two or more players, with two levels of difficulty. Using deductive reasoning and logic, the "decoder" has to break the "secret code" made up by the other player, in the least amount of tries. Then it's the first player's turn to...$31.60 -
What Would You Do? Book
Creative Teaching Press®
$29.36A Kid's Guide to Tricky and Sticky Situations! This best-selling character education book has been updated and improved! It is great for helping kids learn how to do the right thing! Flat bike tires, forgotten homework, obscene phone calls—more than 70...$29.36 -
Math Detective Book, A1, Grade 5-6
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$30.36This 128-page book uses topics and skills drawn from national math standards to prepare your students for advanced math courses and assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in math. Students read a short story that includes...$30.36 -
Mind Benders Level 1, Grades PreK-K
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$21.36This 56-page book contains several of our best-selling deductive thinking puzzles. It develops the logic, reading comprehension, and mental organization skills vital to achieving higher grades and top test scores in all subjects. These award-winning, fun...$21.36Qty in Cart: 0Price:$21.36Subtotal: -
Mind Benders Verbal, Grades K-2
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$20.36This 48-page book contains several of our verbal deductive thinking puzzles. Unlike our other Mind Benders® products, these puzzles are read to students, so they develop the logic, listening, mental organization, and memory skills vital to achieving...$20.36Qty in Cart: 0Price:$20.36Subtotal: -
Balance Benders, Math, Level 2, Grades 6-12+
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$21.36Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders™! You can use these activities as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Students develop problem-solving skills and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are...$21.36Qty in Cart: 0Price:$21.36Subtotal: -
Balance Benders Level 1, Grades 4-12+
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$21.36Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders™! You can use these activities as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Students develop problem-solving skills and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are...$21.36Qty in Cart: 0Price:$21.36Subtotal: -
Balance Benders Beginning, Grades 2-6
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$21.36Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders™! You can use these activities as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Students develop problem-solving skills and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are...$21.36Qty in Cart: 0Price:$21.36Subtotal: -
Daily Mind Builders: Social Studies, Grade 5-12
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$27.36This 136-page book is comprised of intriguing activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized...$27.36