Mind Benders- Verbal: Deductive Thinking Skills
by Anita Harnadek
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Author: Anita HarnadekBrand: Critical Thinking Company
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-06
ISBN: 0894550381
Number of pages: 32
Publisher: Critical Thinking Press
Book Reviews of Mind Benders- Verbal: Deductive Thinking Skills
Book Review: Not exactly what I was expecting, but good
Summary: 4 Stars
"Mind Benders Warm Up" is a collection of 78 logic tests that may remind you of the GRE (only much easier!). It is a workbook with about 30 consumable or reproducible pages printed in black and white on lower quality paper. (The inside title page gives copyright okay for reproducing the pages for a single classroom's use.) There are approximately four problems per page with about two inches between each problem for making notes or diagramming the problem.
The publisher's home page provides an image of one page of four problems, including the following:
"18. Rocky and Terrible are a bird and an elephant. Rocky weighs more than Terrible. Who is what?"
This book also includes math "word problems" along the lines of, If this thing is ten inches long and that one is five inches longer, how long is that one? (not a direct quote).
Although the problems are quite easy for adults (and if there are any that do have you scratching your head, there is an answer key in the front geared towards parents or teachers and a strategy guide in the back for students), they are useful for introducing logic problems to younger children. They are easy enough to prevent extreme frustration, but they allow a child to build up skills in deductive reasoning.
Susan Bauer in "The Well Trained Mind" recommends that parents or teachers start their children off with this level no matter what their ages. I disagree with that; I believe most older children would find these problems much too easy. I would advise parents to look at the problems on the publisher's website and determine whether their children are at or beyond that level before purchasing this book.
It is a good, simple workbook to introduce young children to skills that will help them on many tests for years to come.
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