Scratch Your Brain's effective problem-solving activities boost students' competence and confidence in their everyday math abilities, helping them make the transition to higher math and improving their scores on assessment tests. Contains a variety of engaging, often humorous activities solving puzzles, deducing patterns and sequences, writing multistep solutions to word problems, and more. Problems are sequenced by difficulty throughout each chapter. Some activities have more than one answer, encouraging students to brainstorm and be aware that there is often more than one way to solve a problem. Includes detailed solutions and a skills matrix to help parents match the activities to students' needs.".