🧩 Puzzles & Thinking
Logic, puzzles and strategy games, and the habits of wondering, asking good questions and weighing evidence. No national standard: ordered by age, from matching and patterns to logic and evidence.
♟️ Logic & Puzzles
Matching, patterns and mazes, then deduction, sorting, chess and strategy, then formal logic.
- Same and differentPre-K
- Match and rememberPre-K
- What comes next?K to 2nd
- Mazes and shape puzzlesK to 2nd
- Win, lose or drawK to 2nd
- Clue by clue3rd to 5th
- Sort it with circles3rd to 5th
- Big jobs, small steps3rd to 5th
- Learn chess3rd to 5th
- Riddles3rd to 5th
- All, some and none6th to 8th
- Solve it in fewest moves6th to 8th
- Chess puzzles6th to 8th
- Think ahead6th to 8th
- Spot a bad argumentHigh school
- If, thenHigh school
- Riddles in old talesHigh school
🤔 Big Questions
Curiosity and how we know things: wondering, noticing, asking good questions, fact or myth, cause and evidence, testing an idea.
- Guess, then find outPre-K
- I wonder whyPre-K
- Ask good questionsK to 2nd
- Look closelyK to 2nd
- Keep asking why3rd to 5th
- Fact or myth?3rd to 5th
- Fact or opinion?3rd to 5th
- Cause or just together?6th to 8th
- Weigh the evidence6th to 8th
- Test an ideaHigh school
- Can you trust a test?High school
- When your mind jumps wrongHigh school
- When scientists changed mindsHigh school