Max the Magician

Introduction and Overview of Primary Education Thinking Skills, PETS

Meet Max the Magician.

This character focuses on visual-spatial thinking. The emphasis is on stimulating each child’s spatial intelligence by analyzing spatial relationships, reconstructing the parts into new wholes and making predictions.  Students are asked to look for patterns and find one solution that works.

Key Vocabulary: 

analysis, synthesis, visual-spatial intelligence, perception, shapes, patterns, manipulate, 

solution, magician, stimulate, mental, tangrams, puzzles, codes