ThinkFun SHAPELOGIC User manual

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CHALLENGE
SINGLE PLAYER
AGES 8 TO ADULT
SHAPELOGIC
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STEM BRAINTEASER PUZZLESTEM BRAINTEASER PUZZLE
INSTRUCTION MANUAL

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SHAPELOGIC™
STEM BRAINTEASER PUZZLESTEM BRAINTEASER PUZZLE
GENIUS
SHAPELOGIC
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EXPERT
SHAPELOGIC
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ADVANCED
SHAPELOGIC
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SHAPELOGIC
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INTERMEDIATE
BEGINNER
SHAPELOGIC
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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.

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Your Goal:
Combine the blue and green game pieces to create two
identical shapes.
To Play:
1. Pick a challenge card from the deck.
2. Select the blue and green pieces
pictured on the challenge card.
3. On a at surface combine the
pieces to form identical blue and
green shapes.
Note: Blue pieces cannot
overlap or stack on top of other
blue pieces and green pieces cannot
stack on top of other green pieces.
4. Place the green shape on top of
the blue. If they match perfectly,
YOU WIN; if they don’t, try again!
5. If you get stuck, check the back
of the card for a solution!
About the Inventors:
The inventors of Shape Logic™ (formerly called Top This!™) are
Yu-Chuan Lin and Chun-Yen (David) Chou. They rst created
Shape Logic in 2007 as a math project when they were fourteen.
They feel that having a strong mathematics education and
learning to think logically has helped them become successful.
They are both now studying biotechnology and architecture
in university.
SOLUTION
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