Today's chapter · Tuesday, November 3

Three for today

Who is here, and how long have you got? Then three things: one to read, one to play, one for the table.

Who is here?
How long?
  1. Read

    One Rope, Two Wheels

    From The Day Before. The idea: a pulley turns a pull down into a lift up.

    3 min Open →

  2. Play

    SciQuest

    What will happen, and why?

    15 min Open →

  3. For the table

    HidePals

    Hot or cold — where is it hiding?

    15 min Open →

A feeling word for today

excited

Did you feel it today? What was that like?

Ask each other at the table. This word is not saved.

That’s today.

Three new ones tomorrow. Nothing is counted and nothing leaves this device.

Wondering something? Keep it in your jar.

One story for today

No rush. No quiz. Just one thing to read or listen to.

Meet Circle, Circe, Echo & Edie from MathCircle

Four friends who keep coming back around — and what their loop teaches about patterns that repeat.

~4-7 minutes · Free · No ads · Nothing leaves your device

Seven for the week

One big idea a day. Each one is a ladder with an app for every age.

  1. Monday Who wants you to want it?
  2. Tuesday Folding paper
  3. Wednesday Helping
  4. Thursday Hiding and finding
  5. Friday Secret codes
  6. Saturday Sorting and searching
  7. Sunday Money
Four words of the tide

Every half hour, four new words arrive — the same four a grown-up sees on Spark & Whetstone right now. Read the meaning, guess the word, then tap to check.

Words of doubt

  1. not sure, or not to be trusted

    7 letters, starting with D

  2. careful and slow to trust

    4 letters, starting with W

  3. feeling two ways about something at once

    10 letters, starting with A

  4. not certain; a first try

    9 letters, starting with T

These are English words.