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cornomama4
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Posted: Aug 17 2009 at 8:21pm \| IP Logged

Has anyone used this book before?

http://www.criticalthinking.com/getProductDetails.do?code=p& id=05241 Hope my link works)

Anyway, I have a few questions about how to go through the book. Each chapter works on a different facet of thinking developement and each chapter has many pages. Does one work through each chapter until done, or take a page or two from several chapters at a time and work through the chapters in tandem??

I'll say I'm pretty excited about these materials. I also got Mind Benders, Think A Minutes, Mathematical Reasoning, Reading Detective and Word Roots A1. Anyone who has used these materials and has any practical advice they'd like to share I'd love to hear how it worked for you! TIA

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Posted: Aug 18 2009 at 8:08am \| IP Logged

I couldn't get your link to work. We use some Critical Thinking books - Building Thinking Skills and Mind Benders, mostly. Which book did you have a question about?

God bless,
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Posted: Aug 18 2009 at 2:40pm \| IP Logged

oops! It's the Building Thinking Skills books.

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Posted: Aug 18 2009 at 3:19pm \| IP Logged

We work through the Building Thinking Skills books straight through, no bouncing around. One thing builds on the next. If you were to skip around, I'd do one concept - all of it, then another concept - all of it. No partial concepts unless I really knew that a kid reached the point of really being unable to handle the work.

Does that make sense?

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Posted: Aug 18 2009 at 9:18pm \| IP Logged

It does make sense. Thanks, Christine.

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Posted: Aug 18 2009 at 9:42pm \| IP Logged

I really like CTC. Much of that is b/c my kids seem to really like the materials. I mostly use them to supplement and to keep kids entertained on trips or running errands.

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