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//Recommended Websites for Teacher/Student Use in the Classroom//
Puzzles.com -- my FAVORITE website that has so many interactive (and downloadable) puzzles to offer in order to reach varied thinking/learning styles Worksheet Works -- GREAT online worksheet/puzzle maker that can be individualized according to student levels CoolMath.com -- play these interactive games that will have kids using strategy, logical reasoning and skill (all grade levels will LOVE these!) KenKen.com -- bring more math into solving these daily updated Sudoku-like puzzle with this website; a multitude of challenge levels are provided Luminosity.com -- try these brain games to get your students' noggins fired up; some games can be integrated with curricular areas PuzzleBaron.com -- this website offers a wide variety of deductive reasoning puzzles such as matrix logic puzzles, crytograms, acrostics, plus many more ThinkFun.com -- don't have the iPads signed out...your students can still access Rush Hour and Zingo on-line with this link

//iPod/iPad Apps Available for Integration//
**Chocolate Fix** (available at the primary and intermediate levels) -- students employ the use of logical deductive reasoning strategies to determine the placement of the candy pieces based on clues provided; easy, medium, hard and expert levels

**Rush Hour** (available at the primary and intermediate levels) -- students must use their visual/spatial skills to critically deduce the moves needed to have the red car escape the traffic jam; easy, medium, hard and expert levels available



**DoodleNums** (available at the primary and intermediate level) -- a great number challenge puzzle

**Sudoku** (available at the primary and intermediate levels) -- an interactive version of the ever-popular puzzles originally revealed in the newspaper; more simplified apps are provided at the primary level to assist with introducing the basic "rules" for sudoku puzzles while the intermediate iPads host the more advanced version



**Chess Free HD** (available at the intermediate level)

**Zentomino HD** (available at the intermediate level) -- students use their visual/spatial skills to flip, slide and turn various pentomino pieces to recreate a selected pattern; 75+ puzzles to solve

**TriZen HD** (available at the primary and intermediate levels) -- similar to Zentomino with student use of visual/spatial skills to flip, slide and turn various two-dimensional geometric shapes to recreate a selected pattern; 75+ puzzles to solve

**Set Pro HD** (available at the primary and intermediate levels, but limited to certain carts) -- an interactive version of the popular card game; works best at the intermediate level, but 2nd/3rd graders needing a challenge have enjoyed this one; up to 4 players can play at once using one iPad; GREAT for recognizing patterns and sets that work together

**24 Game** (available at the intermediate level) -- this app takes an ever-popular card challenge and makes it interactive; students can use this app to practice their "24" identification skills in preparation in competing against others in a classroom tournament/game

**Kakooma** (available at the primary and intermediate levels) -- students learn to recognize number patterns with addition, multiplication and negative integers; wonderful for use with students to increase their fact identification while also challenging them to recognize the math problem hidden within the puzzle

//Recommended Resources for Teachers//
//**Professional On-Line Resources**// Reading Instruction for the Primary Gifted Learner -- @http://www.bertiekingore.com/readinginstruction.htm Teaching the Gifted Child (GiftedJourney.com) -- @http://www.giftedjourney.com/teaching.html Gifted Students in the Regular Classroom (Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary and Secondary Students) -- @http://www.cmu.edu/cmites/giftedstudents.html

//**Professional Reading**// • __Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom__ -- Susan Winebrenner • __Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century__ -- Richard M. Cash, Ed.D.