Critical Thinking Activities in Patterns, Imagery, Logic

by Dale Seymour and Ed Beardslee

These collection of blackline masters contain activities that will help your students develop three important elements of critical thinking in mathematics:

• The ability to recognize patterns - Pattern activities give students opportunities to do detective work in discerning mystery numbers and numerical patterns.


• The ability to use visual imagery - Imagery activities ask students to use their imagination as they explore symmetry, congruence, rotation, similarity, part-whole relations, and mapping.


• The ability to reason logically - Logic problems challenge students to find winning strategies, apply deductive logic, solve number sentences, and classify by attributes.

These skills help students solve problems in almost any discipline.