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Worked examples
A day has two twelves. Only the midnight one changes the date — so a journey that runs past it is counted in two parts: up to midnight, then on from midnight.
Explore activity: 24-hour time, and what happens at midnightSkill Builder
Use face position and orientation to predict the folded shape.
Explore activity: 3D Nets and Folded FacesSkill Builder
Reliably read off the front, top, or side view of a small 3D block model, knowing that depth disappears in a flat view and the tallest block in a line sets the silhouette.
Explore activity: 3D-to-2D ViewsCharacter Worlds · The Meteorologist
Trend prediction from weather data
Explore activity: 5-Day ForecastWorked examples
Cut a square out of each corner of a card and fold the sides up: every side of the floor loses that square twice — once at each end — and the square itself becomes how deep the box stands.
Explore activity: A corner cut comes off both endsWorked examples
A story shows how someone feels through what they do and say. The feeling word printed nearby is usually somebody else's, or from a different moment — so read the person's own actions at the moment you were asked about.
Explore activity: A feeling is shown, not saidWorked examples
“Three quarters of the way from 20 to 120” means three quarters of the GAP — three quarters of 100 — counted on from 20, so it lands on 95: not three quarters of 120, and not 75, which is only how far you travelled.
Explore activity: A fraction of the way is a fraction of the gapWorked examples
A joining word — however, as a result, as well as this, for comparison — is a promise about how the sentence before it and the sentence after it fit together. You check the promise against what the two sentences actually say, not against whether it reads smoothly.
Explore activity: A joining word is a promiseWorked examples
A poem's sentence keeps going past the end of a line — so the thing doing something in line 6 is named at the start of that sentence, and you find it by reading back to the last full stop, not to the start of the line.
Explore activity: A line is not a sentenceWorked examples
Four extracts can all use the word you are hunting for and only one of them actually says the thing — a claim has to be paid for, all of it, in that extract's own words.
Explore activity: A matching word is not a matching claimWorked examples
Little words like it, they, this and the-something can only stand for things the page has already said above them — so a sentence can only go where everything it points at has been said before it.
Explore activity: A pointing word points back, never forwardCharacter Worlds · The Naturalist
Testing rival trait-function hypotheses and finding decisive contradictions
Explore activity: Adaptation DetectiveSkill Builder
Make equal-sized fraction pieces before adding or subtracting.
Explore activity: Add And Subtract Unlike FractionsCharacter Worlds · The Songwriter
Predict how a title frames a poem, then decide whether the full text confirms, changes, or leaves the prediction open.
Explore activity: Album TitleCharacter Worlds · The Detective
Testing logical consistency of statements
Explore activity: Alibi BreakerCharacter Worlds · The Lawyer
Kids match people to places, times, or items by combining clues and crossing off impossibilities in a logic grid until one answer survives.
Explore activity: Alibi Grid: Crack the CaseSkill Builder
Ask what else changed or what else could have caused the outcome.
Explore activity: Alternative CausesCharacter Worlds · The Pilot
Read change across line graphs, recover genuinely missing readings and test the result against a later rule without visual answer leakage.
Explore activity: Altitude TraceWorked examples
An answer has to be paid for by the words on the page — sometimes by two sentences put together — and an answer that only sounds likely, or only borrows a word, has not been paid for at all.
Explore activity: An answer has to be paid forPlayground
Infer a directed relationship that explains every known pair, reject a loose or reversed association, use a distinguishing example when two rules still fit, and carry the surviving relationship to a new pair.
Explore activity: Analogy BridgePlayground
Treat an angle as an opening independent of arm length and orientation. Combine openings into a straight turn, then plan the fewest positive turns under a strict per-turn limit and revise the plan when the limit changes.
Explore activity: Angle FlowCharacter Worlds · The Engineer
Estimate, compare, and recover angles from measured structures while testing whether every geometric constraint can coexist.
Explore activity: Angle LabSkill Builder
Catch answers that are true working-out but answer a different question.
Explore activity: Answer the Question AskedSkill Builder
Use the given rule, including operation order, to produce or check outputs.
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