Resources for CogSkill 4 — All Fun and Brains

ThinkFun Games

An excellent place to find more tabletop games for your collection!

https://www.thinkfun.com/our-products/

Fluxx game

A fun, silly game where the rules are always changing.

https://www.looneylabs.com/games/fluxx

Logic puzzles on PuzzleBaron

If you love grid-style logic puzzles, this is a great source.

https://logic.puzzlebaron.com/

Critical Thinking Company

As close as you can get to finding workbooks that can help your child’s critical thinking skills. “Balance Benders” are especially recommended, and will make algebra more intuitive later.

https://www.criticalthinking.com/

James Madison Critical Thinking Course

This hefty book by William O'Meara and Daniel Flage gives comprehensive coverage and practice of different types of syllogisms and formal logic problems.

Amazon link

Learn and play chess

No Stress Chess

A great little set that helped me finally learn chess as an adult! Can be played with the cards for beginners, or traditionally as players improve.

Amazon Link

Chesskid.com

A safe and friendly place for kids to learn chess and play with friends, parents and coaches, or against bots of increasing difficulty.

https://www.chesskid.com/

Chess.com

Teens will likely prefer to join the adult chess community on this site.

https://www.chess.com/

Solitaire Chess

These mini-puzzles are less intimidating than a whole board, but still challenging!

Amazon link

Resources to make math fun

MoMath

A surprisingly fun museum for kids in New York City. They also developed online programming during the pandemic.

https://momath.org/

Natural Math

Parent-ucators will find clever ways to share the joys of math with their kids, through the books and classes here.

https://naturalmath.com/

Beast Academy / Art of Problem Solving

The gold standard for training the next generation of mathematicians, Art of Problem Solving has also developed Beast Academy for the younger kids. It uses fun online or workbook activities to teach math from a puzzle-solving perspective. Great for developing mathematical intuition.

https://beastacademy.com/

Find your local math circle here!

https://mathcircles.org/map/