LogicMills never forgets its roots, and that’s why we are back doing community service and supporting the Grassroots Organisations. Our mission of teaching Analytical Thinking Skills in the Singapore public schools doesn’t preclude us from collaborating with community centres and other community outreach groups (like SINDA, Mendaki, and CDAC). Our strong social mission is very much in keeping with the spirit of helping children, especially the most vulnerable.

By teaching useful life skills and analytical concepts like Cost-Benefit Analysis and Sequential Planning, we give students a chance to improve their academic performance. Our ability to improve student academic performance — including the PSLE — has been repeatedly demonstrated in scientifically rigorous studies, including research conducted on behalf of the Ministry of Education. One study involving 1093 Primary students revealed that pupils who go through our training can improve their grades by up to 30.17%.

For its latest 2011 social initiative, LogicMills will implement its new programme Rise of Knowledge, which develops thinking skills and problem-solving strategies in Mathematics, English, and Science. Helping others help themselves: Just one more step in the right direction, we think.

[Singapore: 25 January, 2011] As one of the largest, most rigorous and comprehensive studies on the teaching of analytical thinking skills ever conducted globally, independent academic consultant Dr. Riccardo Pelizzo studied the effects of LogicMills’ proprietary Analytical Thinking Skills™ (ATS®) on 1,093 local primary school students, as well as 980 secondary school students.

To provide a clearer picture of the effects of ATS® in schools, participating schools in the study varied from neighbourhood to elite schools in Singapore. This diversity, combined with the large number of participants, helped to ensure that the results obtained for the purpose of the study are a realistic representation of the general Singapore student population.

First published in The New Paper

He wanted his students to steer away from rote learning and be creative thinkers.

So Mr Ong Kim Soon, the principal of St. Hilda’s Secondary School, gave a private school a challenge: Does its teaching method work for students who are not fast learners?

LogicMills took up his call.

First published in The New Paper

Sitting in on your 9-year-old child’s class may sound boring. But it isn’t if you are playing analytical games that helps adults as well. Ask Mr Milind Sattur, who sat in for at least 15 out of 20 sessions of his daughter’s critical thinking classes. His daughter, Sanaya, 9, takes lessons at LogicMills, a private school which teaches students to hone their thinking skills through logic games.

LogicMills conducts workshops for children as young as 4, as well as tertiary education and corporate professionals as well. Impressed by what the lessons offered, Mr Sattur, 39, signed up for lessons to improve himself. Although his daughter is strong academically, Mr Sattur, who holds two Master’s degrees, wanted to find ways to help her learn better.

He said that unlike normal classes, where students may spend a lot of time memorising material, the LogicMills programme teaches students how to hone their thinking skills not just through books, but with games as well.