These 500 puzzles offer the ultimate challenge for solvers who want to pit their wits against crafty conundrums, stretch their mental powers, and sharpen their IQs. The degree of difficulty keeps rising in each of the 20 sections, so work through them in methodical order to find mathematical patterns that seem to reoccur and visual clues that overlap. That helps as the problems get harder, but beware: just when you think you're caught on to the trick, it changes
Sixty stimulating standards-based (IRA/NCTE) activities adaptable for exploring a variety of short stories and novels help young learners develop skills as readers, writers, and speakers. You'll find a wealth of ideas here-reading and writing activity projects (e.g., essays, news stories, letters), visual display projects (e.g., charts, posters, bookmarks), and speaking and listening activities.
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture is a remarkable, on-of-a-kind compendium which uses a combination of textual definitions and hundreds of superb line drawings to illuminate a comprehensive body of essential terms in architecture, including important interrelationships between building components.
