Brain Teasers!: Over 180 Quick Activities and Worksheets That Make Kids Think

by Susan S. Petreshene

Book Overview

Nearly 200 "quickie" classroom activities and reproducible worksheets to develop the thinking, reasoning and memory skills of elementary students and help them master both basic and advanced concepts in math, language and writing. Ideal ways to get kids involved, vary instruction, fill spare minutes, introduce or reinforce specific skills/concepts, and assign as homework.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876281234
• ISBN13: 9780876281239
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Good resource for parents, too

My son has really responded to the activities in this book. We've used activities from the "Thinking and Reasoning" and "Listening and Remembering" sections as warm-ups for more challenging work, and the math and language activities look like they'd be good "bridge" activities for the summer months. Although this book is intended for use in the classroom and contains some partner activities, it appears that most of the group activities can be used with a single child. And, of course, you can always be your child's partner for the partner activities.

a must have

I've looked at various teaching resources that claim to make kids think and several of them actually do. This one was impressive to me because of the diversity of the activities- it has math, language and general reasoning. It would be appropriate for children as young as first grade. (But perfectly suitable for my 4th graders.) I would recommend this book to any teacher for extension activities.

GREAT extra work

I copied different pages with 9th graders, and they REALLY enjoyed doing the problems. They did this after a test or when they had finished their assignment. I am a substitute teacher and this is a GREAT fill in when all the work is finished. May be used in other grades also.