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Getting started

Cogito teaches math, reading, science and life skills, from pre-school up to the last year of high school. A math lesson is not a video and not a page to read. It is something your child touches and changes, and the answer changes with it. Science and reading lessons are picture books, read a page at a time, with a question to answer as they go.

Around the courses are places to try things: labs for math and science, experiments at home, films, puzzles, chess and the Rubik’s Cube. Pip, the talking buddy, goes with your child through all of it.

You can try it before anything else

You do not have to sign up, pay, or fill anything in to see whether Cogito suits your child. These are open to everybody:

  1. The first chapter of every course. Every subject, every grade. Open one and read the whole thing.
  2. A first taste of every lab. The Numbers problems in Math Lab, the Life science labs in Science Lab, the first four Science Fair experiments, and Pattern Detectives in Brain Gym.
  3. Whole places, free in full. The films in Tech explained and Watch & Wonder, Chess Academy and Play Chess, Cube Academy, and Fun & Think. Competition Prep’s worked examples on the chalkboard are open too.

When you want everything opened up, sign in. Until December 31, 2026, signing in opens every course, free. After that, signing in gives you seven days free. No card is asked for either way, and nothing is charged.

Your first five minutes

Here is the shortest path from arriving to watching your child do a lesson.

  1. Open cogitolearning.com.
  2. Tap Try a lesson to open a real Grade 3 math lesson. Change the numbers and watch the picture change with them. That is what every math lesson is like.
  3. Back on the home page, tap Courses in the blue bar at the top. Every course is on one long page. The buttons at the top, Math, Science, Reading and Life Skills, jump to each subject.
  4. Scroll to your child’s grade and tap the course card.
  5. Tap Start lesson 1. The first chapter is free and always will be.

Your child can also tap the coral Talk / Chat to Pip button in the blue bar and say what they would like, such as “play a story”. See Pip, the talking buddy.

What you will need

A phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer, and an internet connection. Anything made in the last several years will do. There is nothing to install and nothing to download.

Is my child too young or too old?

Math runs from pre-K, which is roughly ages three to four, up to Calculus and Differential Equations. Science runs from Kindergarten to Honors Physics, and Reading from pre-K to Grade 5. If you are not sure which grade to choose, a short test can suggest a course and chapter: see Finding where to start. The chapter on helping your child explains why starting slightly too easy is better than slightly too hard.