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Every computing device, hardware and software, is vulnerable, and at UnicMinds, we teach youngsters all the basics required to understand cyber security and ethical hacking in a comprehensive way including …
The first two cases are without replacement and the next two cases are with replacement. Case 1: Let’s say there is an urn with 5 red balls and 50 green …
When you open a tap to fill the bucket, the bucket filled with water is the integration of the tap flow of water over time taken to fill the bucket. …
Third grade is a benchmark year for kids in the primary grades, and students and teachers alike feel that a bit. There is an age-old saying that until the third …
Every child should learn to code if we want to prepare them for success. Coding develops their logical and math skills and helps acquire valuable aptitude and problem-solving skills that …
In this game, there will be two players – Player 1 and Player 2. If the total number of turns is 10, then Player 1 will roll the dice until …
Gifted testing starts early, as early as Kindergarten, but testing children as young as two is largely not considered necessary and accurate. Gifted testing is considered more accurate between the …
What is the NWEA MAP Test? The NorthWest Evaluation Association is a not-for-profit research organization that creates assessments for K-12 students. The NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) is a …
Intelligence Quotient or Cognitive Assessment tests (IQ tests) are used to determine a child’s learning capability by identifying their cognitive strengths and weaknesses. They largely test a child’s reasoning skills, …
Financial Literacy is important for kids. Learning how to manage money is something that schools don’t teach, and it is something that parents too often think that it is not …
Today, hard-drives or hard-disks store an incredible amount of data. I remember when I did my computer-science engineering, my hard-disk was 2GB and my RAM was 32MB. Today, in the …
What is the OLSAT? Otis-Lennon School Ability Test® (OLSAT) is a reasoning test for K-12 school children that independent school districts conduct to assess the eligibility for the gifted and …
According to a study published by Common Sense Media, approximately 53% of children use a smartphone by age 11. The study also found that children between the ages of 8 …
What is the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10)? Stanford Early School Achievement Test, also called Stanford-10 or SAT-10, is a set of standardized achievement tests used by independent school districts in …
Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) is a reasoning and logic test for kids. Essentially, the test covers logical, reasoning and verbal ability across numericals, problem-solving, patterns, pictures, puzzles, sentence completion, verbal …
Published by Riverside Insights, the CogAT was originally developed in the 1950s and has since gone through many updates. The most recent versions of the test are Form 7 and Form …
In this post, we will understand in detail how we use waves for our daily communications. If you’re serious about science, this is a really fundamental topic to get a …
We all know the classic Tic-Tac-Toe game we play by drawing on paper or as a board game. In this post, we will see how we can write a program …
AI can be broken into two broad categories – narrow AI and general AI. Narrow AI is more like solving a fixed problem (in multiple possible ways, of course) using …
Educators don’t often talk about compassion and love for children. This is because essentially we live in a world that mostly prizes only quantifiable consumerism and materialistic individual achievements. The …
Rock, paper scissors is played between two people, both of them choosing one out of the three options. Then, according to certain rules, one of the two is declared the …
It is easy and normal to think coding is only for adults who are working for technology companies. It will truly surprise you if you sit in one of our …
In this post, we shall see how to make a scrolling background or an animated moving background for any game in Scratch. The scrolling background or moving background provides a …
What is the CogAT Test? The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) measures the level and pattern of cognitive development of a student compared to age mates and grade mates. The CogAT …
It is well proven now that block-based coding courses for kids is an effective and popular method for introducing programming concepts. With its user-friendly interface and visual components, block-based coding …
Children can benefit hugely from learning how to code and we saw plenty of examples of that in our previous blogs. In line with that, UnicMinds has launched free coding …
In this post, we’ll see the steps required to create a two player Maze Runner game in Scratch. The simple goal of this game is that the players help the …
More than 95% of the Internet you use anywhere in the world travels through the tiny optical fibers connected via. Land (and therefore Sea). Contrary to your beliefs, only a …
Ethical Hacking for Juniors Tweens and Teenagers often wonder how computers in a network are all related and how the data travels from my mail to my friend’s mailbox over …
There is a deep relationship between prime numbers and public key encryption using RSA algorithm. In this post, we will understand why prime numbers are important for encryption. We will …
Coding is not just for kids who are interested in technology and computer-science. By engaging in giving logical instructions to computers, kids are developing problem-solving skills and computational thinking. At …
In this post, we will show you how to code a simple basketball game in Scratch. The code for this can be found here. If you want to learn to …
Young Coders program provides kids with basic logic-building, creative outlet, and foundation mathematics. It might come as a surprise that children are coding as early as 5 years of age. …
As we head into the summer in the United States in two months, families and children look out for some time away from schoolwork and to some vacation. In India, …
A new technological development by Tel Aviv University has made it possible for a robot to smell using a biological sensor. The sensor sends electrical signals as a response to …
Scratch is a simple and great GUI-based platform invented by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT for children to learn coding while building games and apps. It is a great …
3D printing was a fancy term in 2013, and I first overheard that IIT Bombay Computer Science Department is getting one of the first 3D printers in India. And I …
In this article, we shall understand how encryption and decryption work using public/private keys. Working of Encryption & Decryption An old school example to understand public key and private key …
Critical thinking is the suspension of judgement while identifying biases and underlying assumptions in order to draw accurate conclusions. Critical thinking is among the most important causes of change in …
This article is originally published in The Conversation here. Do you struggle to visualise how to rotate your shoes so that they nest together in a shoe box? How are …