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Includes:

• 10 Blue Puzzle Pieces

• 10 Green Puzzle Pieces

• 50 Ringed Challenge Cards

with Solutions

• Game-go Bag

Growth Mindsets in Math

To be a successful STEM learner, students must develop a mental
mindset for growth. That mindset requires students to show
persistence and determination as they encounter more complex
challenges throughout their education.

In her book,

Mindsets in the Classroom

(Prufrock Press, 2013), Mary
Cay Ricci implemented a Critical Thinking Growth Mindset Project in 6
schools in low income areas containing a total of 53 classrooms. Those
schools embedded ThinkFun games in the classrooms. She writes:

“These games, in partnership with growth mindset
lessons, showed unexpected results in just 7 months.
Not only did the teachers report increased motivation
and persistence, but the data showed growth in reasoning

abilities…All 6 schools averaged growth of 8 percentile
points in analogical reasoning and 7 percentile points for
quantitative reasoning.”

ThinkFun’s special collection of STEM games challenge children to

develop reasoning skills through fun, levelled challenges.