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Games that teach
Bedtime learning games for a parent and a 3 to 6 year old.
Teaches counting and lettersGoogle Play: Side by PlayApp Store: Side by Play
Learn the presidents, then step in the ring with them.
Teaches U.S. historyGoogle Play: POTUS KOApp Store: POTUS KO
Build a plane from real inventors’ ideas and learn how flight works.
Teaches how planes flyGoogle Play: Stranded on Principle
A card game where a giraffe costs more than a ladybug.
Teaches how big things areGoogle Play: Ant to EverestApp Store: Ant to Everest
A match-3 where the tiles are atoms. Swap them into real molecules, from water to chloroform.
Teaches real moleculesGoogle Play: Bond Swap
Tower defense built from real circuits. Every tower is a real electronic part, and any two make a circuit.
Teaches how circuits workGoogle Play: Silicon GateApp Store: Silicon Gate
Times tables, with a sword. Swipe the numbers your blade goes into, and every cut says the fact back.
Teaches times tablesGoogle Play: Factor Slicer
A slingshot game. Lob snacks to hungry plush monsters on eight worlds, each with its real gravity.
Teaches gravity on other worldsGoogle Play: Snack Lob
A history game for teens. Fall through an 1871 history chart with a phone at 23% and no signal, then work out each place with what you find there.
Teaches world historyGoogle Play: Hack the Past
The free games side of StudyQuest360, starting with Times Tables. It works offline, and progress stays on the device.
Teaches times tablesGoogle Play: StudyQuest Games
Type true facts and race a blue line set to your age. At the end it shows which fingers missed.
Teaches typing
Turn homework into a game with learning plans and concept-based progress tracking.
Build a packet and ride it across the internet.
Teaches how the internet worksGoogle Play: Ping! The Internet Game
Five-minute lessons
How AI works, starting with the data on your phone.
Teens and adultsGoogle Play: Data to AIApp Store: Data to AI
How products get decided, tested and shipped.
Teens and adultsGoogle Play: Product ManagementApp Store: Product Management
What’s inside the box, and how to fix it when it’s slow.
Teens and adultsGoogle Play: How Computers WorkApp Store: How Computers Work
A horoscope that tells the truth: the real stars in your sign.
Teens and adultsGoogle Play: Star SignsApp Store: Star Signs
What companies collect about you, and what you can do back.
Teens and adultsGoogle Play: Your Data RightsApp Store: Your Data Rights
The trail of data you leave behind, most of it without typing a thing.
Explained
Why who you ask changes the answer, and why twenty random beats two hundred convenient.
Explained
Teaching a computer with examples instead of rules, and how it goes wrong.
Explained
Mean vs. median: what’s the difference?
Why one billionaire makes “the average” lie, and when to use the median.
Free in your browser
Correlation vs. causation: what’s the difference?
Ice cream doesn’t cause sunburns. How to tell a real cause from a coincidence.
Free in your browser
How spread out the numbers are, and what one and two standard deviations cover.
Free in your browser
Chunks in, one guess at a time out, and why it can sound sure and still be wrong.
Free in your browser
A free printable of all 24 Dinner Table Challenges from the Product Management course: one question to ask at home about how products really get made.
Free printable
AI vocabulary for the dinner table
A free printable of 17 AI and data words, each explained in one plain sentence. For families, classrooms and school newsletters.
Free printable
More on the way
The next ones get built the same way: pick something people find hard, find the version of it you can play with, and write it so a curious teenager and a curious adult can take the same lesson.