Mind Stretchers

Mind Stretchers
Author: Robert E. Myers
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2001
Genre: Creative activities and seat work
ISBN: 1882664744

Bring the past to life in your social studies classroom.

Mind Sparklers

Mind Sparklers
Author: Robert E. Myers
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1998
Genre: Creative thinking
ISBN: 1882664329

Add some sparkle to your program. Mind Sparklers Book 1 provides humor, zest, and challenging thinking activities to any primary program. Featuring a collection of activities that challenge students to develop their creative thinking skills, this book correlates each of its activities to a specific subject area. Grades K-3

10 Minute Math Mind-Stretchers

10 Minute Math Mind-Stretchers
Author: Laurie Steding
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1997-07-01
Genre: Mathematical recreations
ISBN: 9780590865630

Need a day starter? Need quick ideas for independent or group work? Here's just the resource. A rich compendium of quick, hands-on problems, projects, and activitiesā€¹some reproducibleā€¹that challenge students to apply and extend their math skills. Includes geometry, fractions, multiplication and division, problem-solving, and more. Supports the NCTM guidelines.

Vocabulary Mind Stretchers

Vocabulary Mind Stretchers
Author: Ann Richmond Fisher
Publisher: Instructional Fair
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1997
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781568226248

More than 70 mind-stretching activities and puzzlers to challenge students and help expand their vocabularies in an appealing way! Students develop a greater love of language.

Mental Math Workouts

Mental Math Workouts
Author: George Moore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1998-03-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781885111630

This book contains 12 worksheet sets and 12 review sets. The worksheet sets cover a wide variety of mental mathematical problems from across the curriculum.

Diaminds

Diaminds
Author: Mihnea C. Moldoveanu
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0802099912

What constitutes successful thinking in business? What are the techniques used by some of the top minds in the business world to solve problems and create value? In Diaminds, Mihnea Moldoveanu and Roger Martin, creators of the Integrative Thinking curriculum at the Rotman School of Management, draw upon numerous case studies and interviews - as well as theories and models from cognitive psychology, epistemology, analytic philosophy, and semiotics - to present a new conception of successful intelligence that is immediately applicable to business situations. The 'diamind' (or dialogical mind) is characterized by a number of qualities: the ability to simultaneously hold opposing plans, models, and courses of action in mind while retaining the ability to act (bi-stability), logical depth and informational breadth in one's thinking processes (meliorism), the ability to choose among various representations of the world, the self, and others (choicefulness), and the capacity to think about how to analyse and solve a problem while at the same time thinking about the problem itself (polyphony). The authors discuss these concepts in detail, and provide examples and exercises throughout to encourage readers to examine and re-engineer their own thought patterns to develop these qualities and cultivate their own 'diaminds'.