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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 …

The Intuition of Integration

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 …

Peter Pig Game in Python

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 …

IQ Tests for Kids in 2023

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 for Kids

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 Exam?

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

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 …

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