The Cub Climb blog
Calm, sourced articles for parents: how gifted screening works, what reasoning really means, and small things that help at home.
How Cub Climb builds reasoning, puzzle by puzzleA tour of the Cub Climb app on real screens: the three kinds of reasoning, answer-then-why, missed puzzles that come back, and what grown-ups see.
York Region’s Grade 3 gifted screening, explainedWhen York Region screens Grade 3 students for gifted programs, what the CCAT looks at, and what happens after — from the board’s own published procedure.
12 reasoning games to play at home this weekBoard games, word games and puzzles that build verbal, number and visual reasoning — including the ones a Toronto school board suggests to its own families.
Verbal, quantitative and non-verbal reasoning, explainedThe three kinds of reasoning gifted screenings like the CCAT-7 and CogAT look at, in plain words, with one puzzle of each to try with your child.
Why asking “how do you know?” helps children learnWhat research on self-explanation says, why it matters more than getting the right answer, and five ways to ask “why?” at home without it feeling like a quiz.
Little and often: the spacing effect for parentsWhy ten minutes a few times a week beats a long weekend session, what the research on spaced practice says, and how to use it at home.