Programs for advanced learners

Find the program that fits your child now

Whether your child is ready for more challenge at school, preparing for an academic contest, or both, TruePath gives them a structured way to practice independently while you can see meaningful progress.

Explore every program by intended grade range, the skills it develops, and the situations where it can help your child grow.

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Grade ranges are a guide, not a ceiling. Advanced learners can work above their school grade when they are ready.

Math & science

Mental Math

Build speed and accuracy with numbers.

Grades 4-12 School support + contest prep
A good fit if…

Your child knows the basics but needs faster, more confident mental calculation.

What your child builds

Students learn to spot number patterns, choose efficient strategies, and calculate accurately without reaching for a calculator.

  • At school: answer calculation questions and check work more confidently
  • For contests: build speed and accuracy for timed Number Sense and UIL-style challenges
  • In real life: estimate totals, change, discounts, and tips with more confidence
Why this may fit
A good fit if…

Your child knows the basics but needs faster, more confident mental calculation.

What your child builds

Students learn to spot number patterns, choose efficient strategies, and calculate accurately without reaching for a calculator.

  • At school: answer calculation questions and check work more confidently
  • For contests: build speed and accuracy for timed Number Sense and UIL-style challenges
  • In real life: estimate totals, change, discounts, and tips with more confidence
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Mathematics

Find the right starting level for deeper contest-style math.

Grades 3-12 School support + contest prep
A good fit if…

Your child is ready for deeper problems than daily classwork alone provides.

What your child builds

Students connect concepts, explanations, and practice so multi-step math makes sense instead of feeling like a stack of worksheets.

  • At school: strengthen core concepts and explain why an answer works
  • For contests: practice flexible, multi-step problem solving
  • In real life: use proportions, percentages, and patterns with more confidence
Why this may fit
A good fit if…

Your child is ready for deeper problems than daily classwork alone provides.

What your child builds

Students connect concepts, explanations, and practice so multi-step math makes sense instead of feeling like a stack of worksheets.

  • At school: strengthen core concepts and explain why an answer works
  • For contests: practice flexible, multi-step problem solving
  • In real life: use proportions, percentages, and patterns with more confidence
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Science

See where science concepts and source skills should begin.

Grades 4-12 School support + contest prep
A good fit if…

Your child is curious about how things work and needs to connect ideas, evidence, and data.

What your child builds

Students use concepts, models, and data together so science becomes a way of thinking, not a list of facts to memorize.

  • At school: make sense of class topics, diagrams, and lab-style questions
  • For contests: practice applying concepts under challenge conditions
  • In real life: read claims, evidence, and data with a more questioning mind
Why this may fit
A good fit if…

Your child is curious about how things work and needs to connect ideas, evidence, and data.

What your child builds

Students use concepts, models, and data together so science becomes a way of thinking, not a list of facts to memorize.

  • At school: make sense of class topics, diagrams, and lab-style questions
  • For contests: practice applying concepts under challenge conditions
  • In real life: read claims, evidence, and data with a more questioning mind
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Reasoning, reading & language

CogAT Reasoning

Explore verbal, quantitative, and nonverbal reasoning.

Kindergarten-8 Contest prep
A good fit if…

Your child enjoys patterns, word relationships, logic puzzles, or visual challenges.

What your child builds

Students practice noticing what is alike and different, finding relationships, and using logic when a question feels unfamiliar.

  • Build verbal relationships and classifications
  • Work with quantitative patterns and puzzles
  • Develop nonverbal and visual reasoning for CogAT-style challenges
Why this may fit
A good fit if…

Your child enjoys patterns, word relationships, logic puzzles, or visual challenges.

What your child builds

Students practice noticing what is alike and different, finding relationships, and using logic when a question feels unfamiliar.

  • Build verbal relationships and classifications
  • Work with quantitative patterns and puzzles
  • Develop nonverbal and visual reasoning for CogAT-style challenges
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Phase II Mathematics & Thinking

Explore mathematics, reasoning, and creative thinking.

Grades 1-8 School support + contest prep
A good fit if…

Your child enjoys a challenge and benefits from trying more than one path to a solution.

What your child builds

Mathematics and thinking challenges help students reason flexibly, explain their ideas, and stay engaged with complex questions.

  • At school: build confidence with unfamiliar problems and mathematical explanations
  • For contests: practice original grade-profiled math and thinking challenges
  • In everyday thinking: compare options, test an idea, and explain a choice
Why this may fit
A good fit if…

Your child enjoys a challenge and benefits from trying more than one path to a solution.

What your child builds

Mathematics and thinking challenges help students reason flexibly, explain their ideas, and stay engaged with complex questions.

  • At school: build confidence with unfamiliar problems and mathematical explanations
  • For contests: practice original grade-profiled math and thinking challenges
  • In everyday thinking: compare options, test an idea, and explain a choice
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Phase II Reading

Practice evidence-based reading and reasoning.

Grades 1-8 School support + contest prep
A good fit if…

Your child can read the words but needs help slowing down, finding evidence, and explaining an answer.

What your child builds

Students turn reading into active thinking: they identify key details, make supportable inferences, and explain what a passage shows.

  • At school: strengthen comprehension, main-idea, and evidence habits
  • For contests: practice careful passage reading under focused conditions
  • In everyday learning: tell the difference between an idea, a detail, and evidence
Why this may fit
A good fit if…

Your child can read the words but needs help slowing down, finding evidence, and explaining an answer.

What your child builds

Students turn reading into active thinking: they identify key details, make supportable inferences, and explain what a passage shows.

  • At school: strengthen comprehension, main-idea, and evidence habits
  • For contests: practice careful passage reading under focused conditions
  • In everyday learning: tell the difference between an idea, a detail, and evidence
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Spelling Bee

Find an appropriate spelling and vocabulary starting point.

Grades 1-8 Contest prep
A good fit if…

Your child loves words, is preparing for a bee, or needs a steadier way to remember spelling patterns and vocabulary.

What your child builds

Structured word practice helps students notice patterns, understand word parts, and return to difficult words until they become dependable.

  • Build spelling and word-pattern awareness
  • Grow vocabulary through meaningful review
  • Practice steadily at an appropriate level for spelling-bee preparation
Why this may fit
A good fit if…

Your child loves words, is preparing for a bee, or needs a steadier way to remember spelling patterns and vocabulary.

What your child builds

Structured word practice helps students notice patterns, understand word parts, and return to difficult words until they become dependable.

  • Build spelling and word-pattern awareness
  • Grow vocabulary through meaningful review
  • Practice steadily at an appropriate level for spelling-bee preparation
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Contest skills & strategy

Social Studies

Check readiness across history, civics, geography, and sources.

Grades 5-8 Contest prep
A good fit if…

Your child is preparing for a social studies event or wants history, civics, geography, and sources to feel more connected.

What your child builds

Students build background knowledge and source-reading skills so they can connect events, places, civic ideas, and evidence with confidence.

  • Read timelines, maps, and primary-source clues
  • Connect history, geography, civics, and economics
  • Practice explaining which evidence supports an answer
Why this may fit
A good fit if…

Your child is preparing for a social studies event or wants history, civics, geography, and sources to feel more connected.

What your child builds

Students build background knowledge and source-reading skills so they can connect events, places, civic ideas, and evidence with confidence.

  • Read timelines, maps, and primary-source clues
  • Connect history, geography, civics, and economics
  • Practice explaining which evidence supports an answer
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Maps, Graphs & Charts

Try visual-source and data-literacy reasoning.

Grades 5-8 Contest prep
A good fit if…

Your child is preparing for visual-source events or needs practice turning a map, chart, or table into an answer.

What your child builds

Students learn to read visual information carefully, compare evidence, and notice what a chart or map does - and does not - show.

  • Use keys, scales, directions, tables, and graphs
  • Compare patterns and changes in data
  • Make evidence-based conclusions instead of guessing from a picture
Why this may fit
A good fit if…

Your child is preparing for visual-source events or needs practice turning a map, chart, or table into an answer.

What your child builds

Students learn to read visual information carefully, compare evidence, and notice what a chart or map does - and does not - show.

  • Use keys, scales, directions, tables, and graphs
  • Compare patterns and changes in data
  • Make evidence-based conclusions instead of guessing from a picture
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Chess Puzzles

Test calculation, pattern recognition, and board reading.

Grades 2-8 Contest prep
A good fit if…

Your child enjoys chess or wants a structured way to build planning, calculation, and board-reading habits.

What your child builds

Puzzles make planning ahead tangible: students read the board, test an idea, and learn from the result one move at a time.

  • Recognize tactical patterns and threats
  • Practice legal moves and board reading
  • Build calculation, patience, and decision-making habits
Why this may fit
A good fit if…

Your child enjoys chess or wants a structured way to build planning, calculation, and board-reading habits.

What your child builds

Puzzles make planning ahead tangible: students read the board, test an idea, and learn from the result one move at a time.

  • Recognize tactical patterns and threats
  • Practice legal moves and board reading
  • Build calculation, patience, and decision-making habits
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How learning stays manageable

A routine students can follow themselves

  1. Start in the right place

    A short Starting Check helps identify a useful place to begin.

  2. Learn, then practice

    Students use guided practice and program resources to build one skill at a time.

  3. See the next step

    Progress highlights strengths and the skills worth returning to, without daily parent management.