Critical Thinking Detective Book 1 Workbook - Fun Mystery Cases to Guide Decision-Making (Grades 4-12+)

The books are way overpriced if you simply view the cost as a book. The thinking and logic skills that they teach are invaluable as life skills. My daughter has learned to focus on key words and the ways that the words distract or add to her approach to interpreting what they are saying in context. Logic, deduction, and reasoning have helped her in her literature and writing classes because of what she is learning. I'd throw-up at the prices of the company's books if I viewed them as books, but their value is in the creative reasoning skills she is learning. You can lose your material things in life, but life can't take away a good education.

Very nice book! For home school I would teach my 10yr old son many different ways of thinking to help keep his mind sharp and learn how to solve puzzles. He would always absolutely love the mystery detective activity days. As soon as he would see it he'd run to his seat and say c'mon mom! He often did very well, but it's not always obvious. He would figure it out on his own while I would sit near him figuring it out on my own, and then we'd read through and discuss each suspect together, and ultimately divulge to each other who we thought the culprit was. Sometimes we had the same answers and sometimes they were so different. It was always fun to read the answer and explanation in the back of the book when we were done! Such a fun activity. You will not regret getting this book if you homeschool. It's very engaging if you go with it!

Required a lot of organization but worked well for groups of teens in my homeschool co-op class. They learned a lot and used math, writing, critical thinking, time management, and team skills without really realizing it.

This looks good and my kiddo picked this one to do first of the workbooks I've selected for vocabulary. However, I wish there were pages for kids to write the words and definitions so it's all in the one book. We'll end up using a separate notebook which just gives us more things to keep track of. I'd prefer it all be contained in one spot. But otherwise looks like it will be a good way to learn vocab.

I bought this book to do with my 14 year old daughter. We had such a wonderful time doing this! We finished the entire book in about an hour. There is an answer key in the back that explains the answers. That was helpful. We did get a few wrong, so it was nice reading the explanation for the answers. It’s so great to find something a teenager enjoys doing with a parent and this book provided us some fun, quality time together. I highly recommend for the kids/teens in your life that like solving problems and playing detective.

I got this for my 5th and 7th grade homeschoolers. I have them do 1 mystery a week. They're not too hard, but they do require that the kids ACTUALLY THINK in order to do them. I love them. (Note: I tore the answer key out of the back right away and put it somewhere as it's way too easy to just look and see whodunnit and that sort of ruins the reasoning exercise of this book. Since each mystery chooses between 4 suspects, in the answer key it's just the picture of the 4 suspects with one of them marked so just a glance and you know who did it so the answer key had to go!)

I was excited for my 14 year old to use this as some homeschool curriculum. He really likes it. I don't love that every page is basically the same. It's all just a who dunnit mystery type thing. So while thinking is involved it isn't using any other method to teach critical thinking.

Five Stars! My students love these detective cases. Each crime mystery challenges their higher-order thinking and reading comprehension skills. We solve the cases together as a class, and my students like to argue about what is legitimate evidence and what is irrelevant. Students must gather pieces of evidence from various testimonies and clues to solve the mystery. As soon as we solve a case, they beg for another one. This is an awesome critical thinking product that really makes students read very carefully for relevant clues! I even take the book home for family fun with my two middle schoolers. I hope this is the first in a series of these books.