Grades: 3-6
Pages: 64
Format: paperback, color, reproducible

Acting as an investigative reporter students write short articles for a local newspaper based on a short, high-interest story provided in the book. Skills developed include reading comprehension, note taking and article writing.

Grade(s): 6-7
Pages: 64, perforated, reproducible

Understanding analogies and the ability to reason analogically are important problem-solving skills. There are few resources to assist children in the explicit use of analogous reasoning with quantitative and spatial information. This series fills that void.

Grade(s): 8-9
Pages: 58

Understanding analogies and the ability to reason analogically are important problem-solving skills. There are few resources to assist children in the explict use of analogous reasoning with quantitative and spatial information. This series fills that void.

Grade(s): 6-7
Pages: 92, perforated, reproducible

This collection of 150 problems recasts more traditional math problems from a single calculation to two or more calculations to to make a comparison and come to a final conclusion.

Grades: 5-7
Pages: 96, perforated, reproducible

Rich and diverse collections of pattern problems for students to explore, investigate, discover, and create. Forty activity sets in each book are divided into five themes that appear in rotating order:

Grades: 7-9
Pages: 96, perforated, reproducible

Rich and diverse collections of pattern problems for students to explore, investigate, discover, and create. Forty activity sets in each book are divided into five themes that appear in rotating order:

Grade(s): 3-12+
Pages: 72

Diagramming sentences gives many visual and logical learners an alternative way to learn grammar and see the underlying structure of the English language.

Grade(s): 3-5
Pages: 96

Teaches narrative (personal and story), opinion, and informative/explanatory writing as a 5-step process.

Grade(s): 5-12+
Pages: 80

Diagramming sentences gives many visual and logical learners an alternative way to learn grammar and see the underlying structure of the English language.

Grade(s): 6-7
Pages: 104

Teaches narrative (personal and story), opinion, and informative/explanatory writing as a 5-step process.

Grade(s): 7-12+
Pages: 120

Diagramming sentences gives many visual and logical learners an alternative way to learn grammar and see the underlying structure of the English language.

Grade(s): 9-12+
Pages: 304, reproducible

Teacher's Manual to accompany student book sold separately.

Grade(s): 4-9
Pages: 152, color

Many workbooks claim to teach or develop critical thinking skills, but most of these products never define critical thinking or try to teach the meaning to students. This book defines and teaches critical thinking in a way all students can understand through simple explanations, diagrams, and short, engaging activities. In addition to being a course in critical thinking, the activities in this book can be used to supplement lessons in all subjects.

Grade(s): 7-9
Pages: 256

Successful completion of this middle school geometry course will virtually guarantee a student’s success in high school geometry. Although the geometric concepts of perimeter, area, and volume are taught piecemeal from elementary school through middle school, many students enter high school without the skills and knowledge to succeed in high school geometry. This book teaches students an understanding of the reasoning behind the properties taught in geometry instead of merely asking them to memorize them.

Grade(s): 7-9
Pages: 368 (color)

Algebra is the gateway to success in future math and science courses in high school. Students who have a solid algebra background will have no trouble with the algebra problems from SAT and even the GRE. Understanding Algebra I highlights vocabulary, notation, and has examples from the history of math.

Grade(s): 8-12
Pages: 336, color

U.S. History Detective® can be used as a stand-alone textbook, a resource of supplemental activities to enrich another textbook, or as a review course for older students. Its point of differentiation is that it integrates critical thinking into the content lessons.

Grade(s): 9-12+
Pages: 376, color

Practical Critical Thinking engages students in the study of critical thinking. It lays a strong foundation in the important cognitive skills necessary for critical thinking, such as comprehension, analysis, evaluation, construction, creativity, and communication.

Grade(s): 8-12
Pages: 336, color

U.S. History Detective® can be used as a stand-alone textbook, a resource of supplemental activities to enrich another textbook, or as a review course for older students. Its point of differentiation is that it integrates critical thinking into the content lessons.