How does your child think?

    A free 10-minute Thinking Profile for ages 8 to 16.

    Give your child six real-world problems and discover how they approach decisions, money, unfamiliar situations and tricky questions.

    You will discover

    • Where their thinking is naturally strong
    • How they approach an unfamiliar problem
    • Where they tend to jump to conclusions
    • Which thinking skills to develop next
    • A personalised YoungThinkr learning path

    Free. About 10 minutes. No school knowledge needed. No account needed.

    How it works

    1

    Thirty seconds of setup

    Tell us their first name, age and one thing they are into.

    2

    Hand them the phone

    Six short challenges. There is not always one right answer. We are watching how they think, not what they know.

    3

    See the profile

    Five thinking dimensions, what we noticed, three questions to try together, and where we would start.

    What you get

    The Investigator

    Curious. Evidence-led. Questions assumptions.

    Ashton wants to know what is actually true and is happy to change their mind when the evidence changes. That combination is rarer than it sounds.

    Ashton, age 12

    Five thinking dimensions

    • Reasoning
      Strong

      Digging under a claim to find what is really true

      Ashton looked for what was really going on instead of taking the first explanation.

    • Systems Thinking
      Developing

      Seeing how one change knocks on to everything else

      Ashton sometimes saw the knock-on effects of a change, and sometimes stopped at the first cause.

    • Decision Making
      Strong

      Holding a trade-off and still making a call

      Ashton could see what each choice would cost and still made a call.

    • Money Sense
      Emerging

      Knowing that price, cost, value and profit are different things

      Ashton is at the start with money ideas, which is completely normal at this age. Cost, price and profit are three different things, and that is the first lesson.

    • Learning Agility
      Strong

      Changing your mind when new information arrives

      Ashton changed their mind when new information arrived, and could say why. That is a rare habit.

    This describes how Ashton approached six problems today. It is not a measure of intelligence or ability.

    A sample profile. Yours will be built from what your child actually writes.

    This is an educational profile of how your child approached six problems today. It is not a measure of intelligence or ability, and it does not compare your child with anyone else.