- Variety of critical thinking and problem solving skills - typically for fourth grade.
- Each exercise stresses a different age-appropriate thinking skill.
- For children in grades 3-5
- Three-way cardstock matching cards. Organization labels and answer keys included.
- Twenty separate exercises with six problems each
Note: Graphics appear as gray-scale printed on blue cardstock
Compilation of fourth and fifth grade concepts requiring critical thinking skills: numeration and applications, properties, units of measurement, number patterns, single and multi-step word problems, fractions on a number line, estimating sums and differences and products, time intervals, consumer math, geometry, coordinate system, and transformations
Three-way cardstock matching cards. Organization labels and answer keys included. (Lamination recommended for heavy use; cutting required.) Recommended storage (not included): twenty hardware drawers, boxes, or envelopes.
Blackline masters for written responses (answer keys included). Color PDF version. 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.
