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Eighty puzzles. The answers are easy! But getting there is the hard part. Uncover connections and identify hidden relationships until suddenly the answers are appearing as if by magic. Solve situations on the moon, around an insect-eating plant and gold-record racing through space in the Voyager spacecraft. 96 pages, 100 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book towards Great Critical Thinking.......2006-07-20
This book is not only a Challenging, Entertaining and Instructive Collection of 83 perplexing puzzles, but also a tool to discover and develop your critical thinking skills.
Psychologist and educators refer to critical thinking as a variety of higher-level thinking strategies that can be used to analyze, solve and evaluate all sort of things, such as facts, theories, statements, and of course, puzzles. The array of brain-bending puzzles presented in this book will engage many of these skills.
A must for anyone who loves solving Critical Thinking Puzzles.
Fun but with some flaws.......2004-06-28
The book is a blend of somewhat easy and somewhat difficult puzzles. Most people will certainly find a challenge within. However, there are what appear to be some errors in some of the solutions, one of which has been pointed out by another reviewer.
For the most part, the provided solutions adequately explain the puzzle, which is not always the case among puzzle books of this type.
Flawed! One of the worst ever! Please save your money!.......2004-01-16
Critical thinking puzzles are not supposed to have any flaws. Some of these puzzles have multiple answers or are ambiguous. One example is early in the book. The puzzle 'Leftovers Again?' says that students are taught to turn a 1-ounce bag of clay into a statue. The quote in the book says, "For every five statues made, there is enough to make one more statue. Suppose a student is presented with 25 ounces of clay. What is the maximum number of statues he can sculpt?" According to the way it's written, most people, if not all, will answer 30. The book says 31. Incorrect! The puzzle says "for every five statues made, there is enough to make one more statue." It does NOT say for every five statues made, there is one ounce left over. If it were written this way, 31 would be the correct answer.
That is just one example. Trust me on this. The book is full of them. Save your money and buy another book. There's a reason why it's selling used for $1.75.
Fun and Instructional.......2003-01-01
Who says you can't have fun and sharpen your thinking at the same time?
Another Excellent Book By Mr. Dispezio.......1999-07-09
This is an excellent book for adults as well as children. It is becoming increasingly clear: if you want the best puzzle books for critical thinking skills or just plain fun, there are only 2 writers tha t can bring you the top puzzles: Michael Dispezio and Terry Stickels.
Book Description
Test your brain power and your ability to "think outside the box" with this collection of clever conundrums. Perfect for family fun and friendly get-togethers, as well as school settings and management training seminars, these challenging puzzles force you to check assumptions, use deductive reasoning, and uncover creative solutions. Best worked in small groups, lateral thinking puzzles present a seemingly bizarre situation that needs to be explained. Solvers ask a "quizmaster" questions to gather information and arrive at the "right" answer. Clues are provided for those who get stuck. Critical thinking puzzles can be worked individually, and are designed to stretch the way you interpret the world. You'll need to uncover relationships, look for sequences, and make observations. Some require inexpensive, readily available materials such as scissors, toothpicks, and a yardstick. Every puzzle will force you to think in new ways, but just as importantly, they are fun to do!
Think you're up to the challenge? Try these:
Free Lunch
A man in a restaurant used two forks and one knife. He did not pay for his lunch. What was happening?
Clues:
The man ate his lunch with one knife and one fork.
He provided a service.
The restaurant provided an intimate atmosphere in the evenings.
Solution: The man was a piano tuner who had come to tune the piano in the restaurant. He brought his own tuning fork. The restaurateur repaid the service with a free lunch.
Spare Change
Jonathan has a pocket full of coins. Yet he doesn't have the right combination of coins to make change for a nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar, or dollar. What is the largest value of coins Jonathan can have in his pocket?
Solution: $1.19. Jonathan has four pennies, four dimes, one quarter, one half dollar. Added together, they amount to $1.19.
Customer Reviews:
early thinking skills development is essential.......2004-10-19
Nurturing thinking skills and ability benefits kids for a long time. Parents should intentionally let children exercise their brains and learn to think logically and creatively. This book is a great resource. My son has had a lot fun working on it. It opens his mind and intelligence. Since the early enrichment, he is doing pretty well in school and in homework. I signed up him to the free daily math exercise web site http://www.beestar.org. He is fairly outstanding among peers.
Teach Your Children Problem Solving.......2001-08-02
Problem solving is an important abstract skill that is often not cultivated in our children. Children need to exercise their brains and learn to think logically and creatively. This book is the answer. Both my children loved working on this book. It was not a chore--it was fun. It may be too easy for the average 8 year old. Works best on 6-7 year olds in my experience. I wish there were other books in this series geared to the older child. Individual pages would be excellent for homework or extra credit.
Puzzles & Games for Critical and Creative Thinking : A Workb.......2000-03-31
It is often difficult to find the correct type of material to challenge my son. This workbook was great! I could see the gears turning as he worked the puzzles. I would definetely recommend this workbook to parents who wish to stimulate their child's creative thinking.
Book Description
Here are enough tough puzzles to test your mental powers for hours and hours. Try this never-ending array of puzzles, challenges, funky facts, things to build, weird riddles, and other conundrums. Some are old favorites that never fail to stump, others are totally new, but all promise hours of fun. Every one can be completed with a pencil, pen, or some inexpensive materials around the house. 96 pages, 105 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.
Customer Reviews:
For kids or the intellectually challenged.......2001-03-01
I bought this book following a review that claimed the author to be one of the best in the genre. I probably failed to realise that the reviewer must have been talking about another book by the same author, because the so-called Critical Thinking Puzzles turn to be an appalling disappointment: I have solved most of the problems within twenty seconds. It becomes obvious to me that the book targets children.
brooke's review.......2000-02-18
there was this guy lieing beside a rock how did he die?
he was super man and the rock was criptonite
Book Description
Finish layouts, do tricky calculations, and solve the complex mysteries of visual designs. Take a scissors and try to duplicate a "mind-bending" curved design with just a few snips. For a change of pace, find the identity of 30 coins that equal $1.00. (25 pennies, 1 nickel, 2 dimes and 2 quarters.) Answers are in the back--in case you're tearing your hair out in frustration!
Customer Reviews:
Challenging Book towards Great Critical Thinking.......2006-07-20
Great Book towards Great Critical Thinking
This book is not only a Challenging, Entertaining and Instructive Collection of 83 perplexing puzzles, but also a tool to discover and develop your critical thinking skills.
Psychologist and educators refer to critical thinking as a variety of higher-level thinking strategies that can be used to analyze, solve and evaluate all sort of things, such as facts, theories, statements, and of course, puzzles. The array of brain-bending puzzles presented in this book will engage many of these skills.
This book represents the third installment of Critical Thinking Puzzles Books by the same author; the previous titles were "Critical Thinking Puzzles" and "Great Critical Thinking Puzzles".
Absolutely a must for anyone who loves solving Critical Thinking Puzzles.
Mind Bender.......2000-07-05
I love puzzle books and this one gave me a few of them to think about. A great book for a great price.
Book Description
Can students learn from simply asking questions--even ones that may never have answers?
Vincent Ciardiello suggests that to truly learn, students should be puzzled about new knowledge. Question-finding, the unique strategy described in this book, fosters this learning by leading adolescent students to probe the multiple meanings of text and ask challenging, open-ended questions. Focus units illustrate how you can use question-finding across the curriculum.
In each chapter, the author encourages you to "pause and ponder" and "ponder and practice" to reinforce and apply the question-finding concepts.
Other practical tools include
An annotated list of materials and resources that stimulate question-finding
A sample lesson plan that demonstrates the strategy
A glossary of important concepts and specialized terms that help you understand the question-finding process
Use this resource to motivate and engage your students and help them become independent readers and inquirers.
Customer Reviews:
Motivational source.......2007-06-09
"Puzzle Them First!: Motivating Adolescent Readers With Question-Find" by academician and reading instruction specialist A. Vincent Ciardiello focuses on the use of 'question-finding' as a strategy for teaching content literacy to adolescent students. 'Question-finding' teaches students how to effectively probe the multiple meanings of text, as well as reducing any social constraints, thereby increasing their independence as readers and inquirers. Enhanced with annotated resources, a sample lesson plan, motivational sources for question-finding, and a glossary of key concepts and specialized terms, "Puzzle Them First!" is especially recommended to the attention of classroom teachers and parental homeschoolers working with teenagers ages 12 to 18.
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Math Mind Builders Grades 4-6
Manufacturer: The Education Center, Inc.
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Daily Problems & Puzzles to Strengthen Critical-Thinking Skills: Numeration, Geometry, Patterns and Relationships, Measurement, Problem Solving, Graphing, Probability, and Statistics
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Brain Sizzlers: Puzzles for Critical Thinking
Celia Baron
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Classic Critical Thinking Puzzles
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Sequels often disappoint when compared to their predecessors, but author Robert Shiller has proved the exception to the rule with his second edition of Irrational Exuberance. When the original book released in 2000, Shiller's prescient analysis of bubble-like market behavior provided perspective on the painful meltdown of stock-price valuations that subsequently occurred. Five years later, the Yale professor's bearish predictions about real-estate valuations are enough to give any savvy investor or homebuyer pause.
Shiller is one of several well-known economists and pundits who've begun a running dialogue in the last few years around the drawbacks of unchecked free markets. Few writers, though, dissect the phenomenon of bubble behavior as clearly and thoroughly as Shiller does. As with the first edition of his book, Shiller begins this one with reams of quantitative data around the late 1990s stock-market runup. This new edition adds data on real-estate price trends in the early 2000s, and points out the striking parallels between the earlier stock-market boom and bust, and current trends with housing prices in the United States. Shiller actually believes the two phenomena are related; as investors lost confidence in the stock market and moved their money into real estate, one asset class fell while the other rose. According to Shiller's analysis, the pattern is destined to repeat itself.
Aside from the initial data, the real strength of Irrational Exuberance is the straightforward, almost clinical way in which it explains why things happen as they do. The book walks readers through structural reasons for market bubbles, then ventures into "softer" analyses which professional economists less confident than Shiller would be scared to touch. It examines cultural factors behind market bubbles, such as hype-mongering news media, and psychological factors, such as herd behavior.
Another improvement in this latest edition of Shiller's book is his inclusion of more personal commentary, and he mentions the influence that his wife, herself a clinical psychologist, has had on his intellectual development and his view of psychological impacts on economic behavior. Other personal insights from Shiller center on experiences he had while touring and lecturing around the first book, and some of the most interesting passages are those in which he describes common questions or feedback from his audience, and what he thought in reaction--but didn't voice while on his tour.
In the end, Shiller closes his book with an intriguing set of policy proposals. He argues for a revamping of the U.S. social security system, a new system of house-price insurance for homeowners, and risk reduction through portfolio diversification. Fans of the brainy academic will note with approval that Shiller practices what he preaches: he has begun trying to implement some of his ideas in the real world through two private consulting firms he has founded, Macro Securities Research and Macro Financial. The hope is if Shiller's as correct with this second book as he was with his first, readers will all learn something from these new companies. --Peter Han
Book Description
In this timely and prescient update of his celebrated 2000 bestseller Irrational Exuberance, Robert J. Shiller returns to the topic that gained him international fame: market volatility. Shiller breaks new ground in this second edition by laying out in even clearer and starker terms the market excesses that continue to destabilize the economy and disrupt our lives.
Having predicted the stock market collapse that began just one month after the first edition was published, he now expands the book to cover other markets that have become volatile, particularly the recently red-hot housing market. He includes a full chapter on domestic and international housing prices in historical perspective.
Shiller amasses impressive evidence to support his argument that the recent housing market boom bears many similarities to the stock market bubble of the late 1990s, and may eventually be followed by declining home prices for years to come. After stocks plummeted when the bubble burst in 2000, investors moved their money into housing. This precipitated the inflated real estate prices not only in America, but around the world, Shiller maintains. Hence, irrational exuberance did not disappear-it merely reappeared in other settings.
Building on the original edition, Shiller draws out the psychological origins of volatility in financial markets, this time folding real estate into his analysis. He broadens the evidence that investing in capital markets of all kinds in the modern free-market economy is inherently unstable-subject to the profoundly human influences captured in Alan Greenspan's now-famous phrase, "irrational exuberance."
The ultimate solution to this troubling condition, he maintains, would involve better-designed public institutions such as a revamped social security system, new forms of insurance to protect people's incomes and homes, and a broader array of investment options. As was true of its predecessor, the second edition of Irrational Exuberance is destined to be widely read, discussed, and debated.
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In this bold and potentially urgent volume, Robert J. Shiller, a respected expert on market volatility, offers an unconventional interpretation of recent U.S. stock market highs and shows that Alan Greenspan's term "irrational exuberance" is a good description of the mood behind the market. He warns that poorer performance may be in the offing and tells us how we--as a country and individually--can respond.
Shiller credits an unprecedented confluence of events with driving stocks to uncharted heights. He analyzes the structural and psychological factors that explain why the Dow Jones Industrial Average tripled between 1994 and 1999, a level of growth not reflected in any other sector of the economy. In contrast to many analysts, Shiller stresses circumstances that alter investors' perceptions of the market.
Customer Reviews:
Invested more than ten dollars?.......2007-07-19
If you have Invested more than ten dollars in the share market or real estate than you should read this book.
bring a lunch..........2007-03-27
This book has good info in it but man, does it get long. I read lots of analytical info with interest, but this book was very very slow for me, especially in the middle and later chapters.
The good news is that the first couple of chapters make it worthwhile. It does present some very important and valid concepts. The easily-bored reader could read the first few chapters and the last chapter, learn a lot of good info, and not miss much in the long middle chapters.
JD
Want to be smarter?.......2007-03-25
read the book.
It will open your eyes to the 'truths' of wall street.
Excellent Book! A must read!.......2007-01-03
This is an excellent book! It may seem dry at times with alot of statistics, but overall it provides a good insights into the field of behavioral finance.
Rational Analysis.......2006-10-10
I read the second edition of this book since it is enlarged with the study of the housing market. The phenomenon of bubbles and negative bubbles or collapses is described extremely well by means of statistical data of markets for over a century and a half. The raw data is adjusted to inflation to give a realistic perspective of the trends and patterns. Bubbles seem to be occurring at regular intervals typically based on the "new era" story and everyone believes at least during the heady days that good times are here to stay. But as shown by proven evidence of the past, no bubble has sustained itself permanently and good reason prevails sooner or later. When this happens, the bloated bubble collapses and the hangover is terrible. The story so far is quite simple. But what makes this book so interesting is the depth of research and the manner in which the phenomenon is studied and explained.
The combination of mass psychology and market prices is at the core of this book. For bubbles to happen, information flow is the key. Media plays a significant role in disseminating information and bubbles seem to have originated in recorded history after the advent of the print media. In recent times electronic media particularly the television and the internet play a significant role in speeding up bubble formation and also the reversals. Media needs a storyline and this story needs to be continued to retain customers on a daily basis. Stock market is the ideal place that offers an opportunity to try one's luck if a casino is far away. Backed by on-line dedicated news channels and internet trading, well, it is not surprising that we have day traders in herds. In such situations fundamentals like industry analysis and P/E ratios take a backseat as explained by the author. Historical averages are breached and a euphoria of "once in a life time opportunity" prevails. What happens to the Efficient Markets Theory in such situations?. Since this theory says that markets are perfectly priced based on all publicly available information there cannot be a situation of either under pricing or over pricing. This book perfectly challenges the efficiency and accuracy of this theory.
It is unfortunate that substantial amounts of investments meant to be otherwise risk free sources of income, pension funds for example, are getting diverted into risky markets. Here the author has come out with a list of some sound proposals to protect hard earned life long savings of innocent citizens who are exposed to the irrationality of markets.
The bubble in the housing market is also discussed well. Housing seems to be isolated bubbles occurring in specific regions and not a global phenomenon. But nevertheless the damage can be the same. The party of low interest rate regime seems to be over and a spike in mortgage rates is sure to be the needle that will prick right through this big speculative bubble.
What goes up has to come down ! But once you start reading this book, it is difficult to put it down. Intellectually stimulating and bound to be economically rewarding.
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