This treasure trove of resources is divided into ten themed sections, each preceded by an outline giving the key principles, links with curriculum guidelines and an explanation about the importance of the particular skill. Charts at the beginning of the book summarize curriculum links and skills involved. Each photocopiable activity is accompanied by teachers' notes, and fully explained solutions are given where appropriate.

Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.

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This book is aimed at gifted and talented students in year 7, although it can also be used in the primary curriculum for highly able year 6 students. It consists of tightly focused sets of problems, with each set devoted to core ideas from the Framework but approached in a way that cultivatesmore profound mathematical thinking. The book is structured into a number of sections, which comes in three varieties: tasters, core, and extensions, thus recognising differentiation within the gifted spectrum. The materials can be used within ordinary lessons for top sets.

A thoroughly researched one-stop resource for all those with responsibility for classes that contain gifted and talented students at both primary and secondary level.

Hilarious notes between a son and his mom show how kid logic can be very persuasive. Alex just has to convince his mom to let him have an iguana, so he puts his arguments in writing. He promises that she won't have to feed it or clean its cage or even see it if she doesn't want to. Of course Mom imagines life with a six-foot-long iguana eating them out of house and home. Alex's reassures her: It takes fifteen years for an iguana to get that big. I'll be married by then and probably living in my own house His mom's reply: How are you going to get a girl to marry you when you own a giant reptile? Kis will be in hysterics as the negotiations go back and forth through notes, and the lively, imaginative illustrations showing their polar opposite dreams of life with an iguana take the humor to even higher heights.

Easy-to-apply, scientifically-based approaches for engaging students in the classroom Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham focuses his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning. His book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn. It reveals-the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences. Nine, easy-to-understand principles with clear applications for the classroom Includes surprising findings, such as that intelligence is malleable, and that you cannot develop "thinking skills" without facts How an understanding of the brain's workings can help teachers hone their teaching skills "Mr. Willingham's answers apply just as well outside the classroom. Corporate trainers, marketers and, not least, parents -anyone who cares about how we learn-should find his book valuable reading." —Wall Street Journal