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Critical Thinking Games for Kids

According to Duke University's Talent Identification Program, critical thinking is as "nonlinear, open-ended and complex thinking." Furthermore, effective critical thinking skills involves multiple responses, various perspectives and "recognition of order among chaos." Teaching children how to create and build these skills enables increased performance in school and everyday life.

Thinkin' Things Galactic Brain Benders
- "Thinkin' Things Galactic Brain Benders" is a game for Windows and Mac. Intended for kids ages 8-12, this computer game builds logic and reasoning skills and players explore gravity, motion and inertia. Kids interact with aliens called Fripples, helping them organize their communities in outer space while trading Earth objects. They practice logical thinking, sequencing and decision-making skills while doing this. Players also play with the realities of gravity and analyze and synthesize information, predicting outcomes and test results of challenges. Deductive reasoning skills are mastered. And five different game environments with hundreds of problem-solving games and tests with varying levels of difficulty apply.
  
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Free Critical Thinking Games
- Free Critical Thinking Games is an website that offers games of varying degrees of difficulty and challenge to players. Kids choose between calculating mathematical equations, playing chess, a flag game where they match flags with their countries, and 3D logic games. Pipe Mania is an additional game in which players lay down piping by utilizing coordinates. Lights Off is a game of moving lights and patterns and kids must figure out how to turn off all the lights. Various other games spanning memory, attention, focus, problem solving, spatial reasoning and visual perception are also available at this site.
  
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Brain Boosters
- On the website Discovery Education, a series of games falling under the umbrella of Brain Boosters is offered. Numerous games at varying degrees of difficulty, challenge and thinking skills are only one click away. Categories include lateral thinking, logic, number and math play, reasoning, spatial awareness, categorization and word and letter play. Games are fun to play and answers are provided so as not to cause excessive stress in their solving. Kids simply need know how to navigate their mouse to play on this site.
  
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