Excel Basic Skills: Developing Your Thinking Skills Years 1-2 is the first 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 child’s ability to think laterally, organise, analyse, visualise and prepare themselves for the work they will encounter later at primary 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 studens with a special interst in thinking, interpreting and reasoning
- Activities which can be completed at home or in the classroom
- A lift-out answer section.
This book is intended for those people searching for challenging work for children in their first years of primary education. These children aren't necessarily the gifted or talented but are those children who may have a special interest in aspects of thinking, interpreting and reasoning in the domains of literacy and numeracy as well as basic logi. It ise for those children who enjoy viewing the world from a less conventional viewpoint than can readily be provided in many learning environments. It is for those children who are operating 'outside the sqaure'.