Activities to help students develop three important elements of critical thinking in mathematics: recognizing patterns, using visual imagery, and logical reasoning. These universal skills help students solve problems i9n almost any discipline.
Raded at three levels of difficulty for students in grades 4-6, the activities provide experience with:
- Patterns with numbers, calendars, shapes, coins, and letters
- Ordering by size
- Comparing shapes and designs
- Symmetry
- Plotting pictures on graph paper
- Logic word problems
- Number sentences
- Venn diagrams
- Other areas that develop critical thinking skills
Use these reproducible activities as worksheets for individual student work or as overhead transparencies to give your class a group challenge.
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