Description A comprehensive thinking-skills math series for developing giftedness, Smart Math for Top Students is a serious critical-thinking workbook that builds creativity, flexibility, and intuition—the key traits of gifted learners. It features fresh, fun problems covering all areas of math, closely connected to real life, setting it apart from textbook problems or conventional thinking-skills workbooks. By organizing and systematizing various types of thinking activities—observation, imagination, reasoning, and hands-on tasks—into clear stages, children can easily take on and solve each challenge. Chapter 1. Finding Different Shapes Chapter 2. Finding Relationships Chapter 3. Shape Patterns Chapter 4. Balance Scale Problems Chapter 5. Drawing Pictures to Solve Chapter 6. Shape Addition and Subtraction Chapter 7. Combining Shapes Chapter 8. Rotating Shapes Chapter 9. Various Situations Chapter 10. Reasoning It Out Chapter 11. Various Solution Methods Chapter 12. Everyday Math Problems Chapter 13. Without Missing a Single One Chapter 14. Solving by Drawing Chapter 15. Finding Shapes Chapter 16. Dividing Shapes Chapter 17. Numbers Represented by Shapes Chapter 18. Amazing Calculations Chapter 19. Fast Calculations Chapter 20. Buying Things Chapter 21. Number Maze Compiled by: Simath Math Research Institute Recent Works: , , ... 146 titles in total About the Publisher: Made up of researchers with passion and talent for math education, Simath Math Research Institute develops the best and most optimal math curricula and content to strengthen learners' mathematical thinking skills, based on the academic nature of mathematics and a learner-centered educational philosophy. The institute has led trends in math education by developing the 'Simath' program, which popularized the concept of 'thinking-skills math'; the 'Gifted' program for gifted students; the '1031' math and science series of published textbooks; the '1031 Gifted Aptitude Test'; the 'Top 960' series; the 'Smart Math for Top Students' series; the 'Thinking Math for Preschoolers' series; the 'Top Math TenTen: Exploring and Solving Problems' series; and a wide variety of multimedia math content.