Blast off into space with this Hidden Pictures puzzle book! Featuring over 100 out-of-this-world scenes and more than 1,800 hidden objects to find in Highlights trademark black-and-white puzzles, Space Puzzles is a perfect gift for future astronauts ages 6-12. With illustrations of astronaut activities, wacky aliens, and more otherworldly adventures, kids will love puzzling and giggling their way through this galactic collection. Can you find the peanut on a planet or spy the banana in orbit? Space Puzzles is sure to please every space-loving child! This 144-page book is great for on-the-go travel (on Earth or outer space!), after-school fun or screen-free entertainment on rainy days. Each space-themed puzzle is carefully designed to engage and entertain children while honing their concentration skills, visual perception, critical-thinking ability and attention to detail. Finding the hidden objects gives puzzlers a confidence boost, making it great for the entire family.
A perfect gift for any space-loving child, this collection of Hidden Pictures puzzles offers a unique puzzling experience. Kids can use the included blue highlighter to find hundreds of hidden objects and create fluorescent scenes. This out-of-this-world activity book with inverted white-on-black puzzles combines the fun of coloring with highlighters with ever-popular Hidden Pictures puzzles. Space-themed images, such as a flying saucer tea party, a silly spaceship repair crew, and animal astronauts, create a fun and engaging puzzling activity for the whole family.
This book convenes a selection of 200 mathematical puzzles with original solutions, all celebrating the inquisitive and inspiring spirit of Nobuyuki “Nob” Yoshigahara – a legend in the worldwide community of mathematical and mechanical puzzles. A graduate from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yoshigahara invented numerous mechanical puzzles and published over 80 puzzle books. In 2003, he was honored with the Sam Loyd Award, given by the Association for Games & Puzzles International to individuals who have been made a significant contribution to the world of mechanical puzzles. In this work, the reader will find some of the most ingenious puzzles ever created, organized in ten categories: Logic, matchstick, maze, algorithmic, combinatorial, digital, number, geometric, dissection, and others. Some of them could rivalry with those found at Mathematical Olympiads tests around the globe; others will work as powerful brain teasers for those with an interest in problem-solving. Math teachers, curious students of any age and even experienced mathematicians with a taste for the fun in science can find in this book unconventional paths to develop their problem-solving skills in a creative way.
Front of the Class Puzzles and Games for grades 1 to 2 gives kids a brain boost as they complete crosswords, word searches, mazes, and word games. These word puzzles encourage concentration while strengthening spelling, word recognition, and vocabulary skills. Filled with hours of game-based activities, Puzzles and Games engages children by stimulating the learning process. Each activity in this 320-page book challenges learners to focus on the task at hand while strengthening the reading, writing, and communication skills they need for academic success. These games will flex children’s mental muscles as they explore a variety of puzzles and word games. The Front of the Class activity book series combines education and entertainment with colorful word searches, word games, crossword puzzles, mazes, dot-to-dots, and number games. These books are full of challenging puzzles that help children master essential critical thinking skills. Portable, age-appropriate, and entertaining, Front of the Class activity books provide a fun and convenient learning format that children can use at home or on the go.
Critical and creative reasoning puzzles can be used as curriculum extensions and as anchor activities in the differentiated classroom, for pre and post testing, or as an introduction to a new unit. Puzzles can be completed by individuals or small groups, placed in learning centers, or used as a presentation to the entire class using teacher-made transparencies. Challenging Puzzles in Earth Science includes a Scientific Method chapter in addition to the following types of critical and creative reasoning puzzles, some of which require research.
Keep puzzlers busy all winter long! This winter-themed collection is packed with over 100 types of puzzles and activities, including ever-popular Hidden Pictures puzzles. With bright illustrations, varied levels of complexity, and plenty of humor, this 144-page book is sure to challenge, entertain and amuse kids ages 6-9 with expertly crafted activities. This collection is brimming with brain-boosting challenges like mazes, number puzzles, wordplay, brainteasers and Hidden Pictures puzzles. With a wide range of kids' favorite activities delightfully designed around snow, sledding and more winter fun, this activity book is a perfect solution to winter-break boredom for the whole family. Kids love working to achieve a goal, and every puzzle solved encourages them to take on new challenges and builds their self-esteem. Solving puzzles also help kids with following directions and developing concentration, attention to detail and reasoning skills. Like all Highlights products, Puzzlemania Winter Puzzles is well thought out, well constructed and visually appealing in order to bring kids meaningful benefits and maximum fun.
Winston and his friends enter a puzzle contest to win fifty thousand dollars for their school, but they must also figure out who is trying to keep them from winning, in a book that includes puzzles for the reader to solve.
Exercise your brain with hundreds of colorful, mind-blowing photo puzzles Sudoku, crosswords, word searches, and other brainteasers are wildly popular these days-not just because they're fun, but also because they stimulate the mind and keep it active and healthy. Now there's a new puzzle guide guaranteed to hone your powers of observation and perception. Picture Puzzles For Dummies features 100 full-color puzzles that use sight to enhance your brain capacity as well as keep you amused for hours! This portable guide features 100 fun and challenging photo puzzles Includes "spot the changes" puzzles, "cut-ups", "which one of these is not like the others", and a collection of bewildering "black and white" puzzles Visual puzzles have been proven to strengthen memory, attention span, and creativity, as well as amplify logic, vocabulary, and deduction skills. Whether you're completely new to puzzles or you're a puzzle fanatic, Picture Puzzles For Dummies is the perfect guide to keep you entertained.
What a bargain! At more than 700 puzzle-packed pages, this huge, value-priced collection should keep any solver happy...and busy for a very long time. It contains brain-busting challenges of almost every type: math logic problems for the numerically inclined; absolutely amazing lateral thinking conundrums; really great critical thinking bafflers; and mind-boggling word puzzles. Here's just a small sample of what's inside: The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States had the same mother and the same father, but were not brothers. How could this be so? Stumped? That's because it's one man--Grover Cleveland--who was reelected after skipping a term. And that's just an easy warm-up!