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Thinkin' Things Frippletown offers age-appropriate activities that allow students to explore and practice various thinking strategies, including analyzing attributes, using logic, working backwards, identifying multiple solutions, and practicing creativity. By practicing these skills, students will learn to think clearly, analytically, and independently. Special Features include grow slides that automatically advance as students succeed and graphical and spoken instruction, questions, and feedback that empower students to work with little assistance.
Check out the Learning Opportunities, Features, Correlations, Universal Access and System Requirements for this product. Learning Opportunities - Problem Solving
- Deductive Reasoning
- Map Reading & Navigation
- Number Patterns & Sequences
- Testing of Hypotheses
- Prediction of Outcomes
- Rule Discrimination
- Visual Creativity
Features
Roll by the Numbers at Skate Park
Flo loves to create works of skating art using number sequences you choose for her. Change the numbers, and she'll skate out hundreds of colorful masterpieces for you to save and share! Add Reasoning to the Recipe
Look out! Bob and Gaston are baking again! Help them create the cookies of their customers' dreams. Deduce the ingredients and the order of steps to cook up treats for all the Fripples in town. Deliver a Fripple Package to 4th Avenue
Turn left at C Street and head north toward the park - a Fripple is waiting for a delivery! Use the map and compass points, and watch out for one-way streets! Paint Flags for Finicky Fripples
Become the chief flag designer at Orville's Flag Shop! Paint flags that fit "the secret rule" behind each Fripple's flag collection. (Psst: Bernadette likes three dots of any color.) What will your flags look like? Windows System Requirements: - Windows 95/98
- 486, Pentium(r) or better, 33 MHz or faster recommended
- Hard disk with 2 MB free
- 8 MB memory (RAM) required
- Super VGA graphics
- 640x480, 256 or more colors
- Double-speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
- Windows-compatible sound card
- Optional:
- Microphone
- Edmark TouchWindow
Macintosh System Requirements: - Mac 7.5.6 - 9.x68030, 68040, or PowerPC
- 4 MB memory (RAM), 1900K unused, 5 MB for System 7.5 or later, 8 MB highly recommended
- 13" monitor or larger, 256 or more colors
- Double-speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
Optional: - Microphone
- Edmark TouchWindow
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