Stocktopus
and friends challenge pupils to develop logical reasoning, analyse
and synthesize information and build key problem-solving skills.
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Become a strong thinker with Thinkin' Things Collection 3 and
build thinking skills you can use wherever you are - in anything
you do. Make trades with brokers from around the world, program
a half-time show and solve the Case of the Empty Fripple House.
You'll improve deductive and inductive reasoning, synthesis and
analysis, while building problem-solving skills essential fo success.
Product Features:
- Assess, Deduce and Trade.
With Stocktopus as your broker, exchange items with traders
from around the world.
- Make the trade sequences
required to achieve your "portfolio" goals. Next step:
Wall Street. Carving BLOX. Enter a world where balls roll and
collide on virtual metal that you shape and drill. Send balls
up inclines, through grooves and down holes as you experiment
with physics properties including gravity, friction, motion
and inertia.
- Strengthen deductive reasoning.
Put on your detective cap and solve the Case of the Empty Fripple
House. The Fripples can't move in until you read the clues in
each room, synthesize the information and determine where each
Fripple belongs.
- Build programming skills.
It's football season, and it's up to you to create the half-time
show. Develop beginning computer programming skills as you link
command tiles and control moving formations of marching bands,
football players and cheerleaders.
- Manipulate special effects.
Tiny green aliens, equipped with 22 special effects tools, have
changed a photograph. Analyze the picture and line up the alien
team that faded, dented and twisted it. Use their tools to create
your own outrageous images.
- Grows with your child.
As your child succeeds, Grow Slides automatically increase the
level of difficulty. You can track your child's progress and
adjust the slides from within the activities.
- Help your child build
thinking skills. In Dear Parents, Edmark's Donna Stanger, a
teacher for 20 years, discusses thinking skills and each of
the activities in Thinkin' Things Collection 3!
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