• Variety of critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Each exercise stresses a different age-appropriate thinking skill
• For children in grades K-2
• Cardstock three-way matching cards. Labels for organization and answer keys also included
• Fifteen separate exercises with six problems each

Note:  Problem Solving A appears as grayscale printed on canary cardstock.

Compilation of first and second concepts requiring critical thinking skills: critical Thinking, place value and expanded form, applications and logic, single and multi-step word problems, time and money, fractions and geometry. Graphics printed with black ink on canary cover stock.

Cardstock three-way matching cards. Labels for organization and answer keys also included. (Lamination recommended for heavy use; cutting required.) Recommended storage (not included): fifteen hardware drawers, boxes, or envelopes.

Blackline masters or Digital PDFs for written responses (answer keys included). Not that PDFs may be printed in color ink if desired. Recommended storage (not included): file.

Scope and Sequence Chart (Click here)

The teacher's experience and the sequence of skills in the students' basic math program are the best guides in determining which skills should be introduced first. In general, the scope and sequence chart above can be used as a guide.

A number of sets for younger children are "color coded." Some teachers present all the levels with an exercise set, while others prefer to present all the blue (two-digit) exercises, progress to the pink (three-digit), and culminate with the green (four-digit).

Other skills such as Roman Numerals require no prerequisites other rhan an understanding of place value.  Such exercises can be presented any time.