Brain Teasers – Developing thinking skills Book 3 – Ages 11+

Brain Teasers is a series of three teacher resource books – each containing a number of short, five-to ten-minute activities to stimulate thinking. Language-oriented activities are predominant, which encourages higher-level thinking skills. Other activities encourage creative thinking and problem solving.

Features:

• a variety of independent and cooperative student activities
• clear student instructions
• reinforcement of activities to develop thinking skills
• student self-evaluation on many pages
• challenge’ activities on most student pages (or groups of pages)
• examples to illustrate student activities
• graphic organisers including Venn diagrams
• ‘hints’ and ‘thoughts’ to direct student thinking
• opportunities to track progress by scoring success on pages
• answers, where applicable