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Understand: A Book About Knowing and Not Knowing
Paperback
Series: Future Minds, Book 5
Activity & Coloring BooksGeneral Juvenile NonfictionScience & Nature
ISBN13: 9781839196959
Publisher: Ockham Publishing
Published: Sep 23 2025
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.08 Width: 8.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Some questions don't have easy answers. Some don't have answers at all. And some answers sound true, but aren't.
Understand invites children to slow down, sit with uncertainty, and explore ideas from different angles. It helps them build intellectual humility, resist bad answers, and stay open-minded, even when it's tempting to jump to conclusions.
Research shows that children who can tolerate not knowing - and who learn to say maybe or I don't know - are better critical thinkers, more open-minded, and more willing to revise their ideas with new information.
Understand builds the beginnings of intellectual humility and real-world wisdom.
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