Books and Resources
“EXPERIENCE OUR FUN”
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While it may be that sending your children to our live boot camp sessions just isn’t an option, children can still “experience our fun” through our workbooks. We are always working hard to create and discover resources that will help develop grit as well as essential academic, intellectual and critical thinking skills. Our Critical Thinking Boot Camp for Kids learning tools (AKA fun sheets) allow you to do just that, through a series of fun, effective and intriguing thinking questions. These tools are perfect for the time-strapped parent or educator who wish to quickly engage students in creativity, problem solving and critical thinking. These questions are great practice for gifted students. Spatial reasoning, problem solving and critical thinking are necessary skills for students to learn effectively in the classroom and online. See our list of workbooks below!
Abstract Spatial Puzzles Prints
Try our abstract spatial puzzles. They are unique works of art and a labor of love. We’ve put together a collection of our favorite 12–piece abstract puzzles for students to make and solve. We have drawn them, classroom tested, and formatted them in PDF, but it is up to you to download, print, cut them out for students to solve.
The Yellow Book-Lines, Shapes, Numbers and Squiggles Inspired by the works of visual teaching artist and Frobel methodologies these fun and engaging exercises support the building blocks for math, reading and critical thinking skills using an ask and answer format. Includes, a series of abstract academic exercises for students to develop spatial perceptual skills. Students learn the basics of critical thinking with, shapes, letters, and numeric symbols. Preschool/Kinder students practice flexible thinking, spatial reasoning and improve number sense by practicing addition, subitizing, and geometric shape recognition. The workbook has over 200 practice questions, for young creatively gifted minds.
The Blue Book-Animals, Adjectives and Analogies – A unique set of child-friendly exercises and questions that promote logical reasoning and critical thinking skills in the classroom or at home. Includes, a series of fun, engaging and intriguing animal theme based activities. Students practice spatial reasoning and pattern recognition along with identifying adjectives, animal prints and solving picture analogies. Students can work with an adult or alone. The workbook has over 200 practice questions, for young creatively gifted minds in kindergarten and first grade (ages 5-7).
The Green Book-Critical Thinking with Math Patterns, Codes and Problem Solving – Inside this book are puzzles, patterns and out of the box child-friendly exercises and questions that promote STEM activities including number sense, math reasoning, problem solving, spatial thinking, logical reasoning and critical thinking skills in the classroom or at home. Includes, a series of fun, engaging and challenging academic questions on arithmetic, geometry and measurements, patterns and algebraic thinking. The workbook has over 300 practice questions, for young mathematical minds in first and second grade (ages 6-8).
The Red Book -Paper-Folding Puzzles – Parents and educators can use these child-friendly puzzles to promote cognitive thinking skills in the classroom or at home. The workbook has over 100 practice questions, designed for the STEM/STEAM inspired children ages 6-12, that increase in complexity. This puzzle book has also been enjoyed by high school and college students. Questions are presented in a reading-free or non-verbal format where reliance on the knowledge of spoken English is unnecessary.
Figural (shape)analysis is often used in non-verbal cognitive ability tests to evaluate students’ spatial awareness, logical thinking, math reasoning and problem solving skills. Paper-folding or paper engineering is a form of figural analysis. In this book, the student is shown how a square-shaped piece of paper is folded and where holes, incisions, or other alterations are made. Complex diagrams involve multiple folds and intricate sequences and patterns. The student is to think about how the pattern will appear visually when the paper is folded and unfolded. This workbook is great practice for students testing for admissions into gifted program and academic centers.