Author(s): Alan Horsfield

Education

(NZ Years 6-7) Excel Basic Skills: Developing Your Thinking Skills Years 5-6 is the third in a series of three books which aims to develop more advanced thinking, problem-solving, literacy and numeracy in primary school children, for use at home or in the classroom. Each page comprises a self-contained page of activities which help develop a childÂs ability to think laterally, organise, analyse, visualise and prepare themselves for the work they will encounter in high school. In this book your child will find: - 64 pages of challenging, self-contained activities covering skills in maths, vocabulary, problem solving, logic, visualisation, research and much more - Interesting and fun exercises and puzzles to challenge students with a special interest in thinking, interpreting and reasoning - Activities which can be completed at home or in the classroom - A lift-out answer section. Many of the activities in this book are mind-stretching and develop the ability to think laterally, organise, analyse, visualise and refine research skills using a variety of resources. Others are early preparation for what the child will experience later in primary schooling. Many of the exercises lead the children into devising their own puzzles and problems, which they can then try out on their fellow students.