Yeah Set has been dear to me since I was about 5 years old, and I remember bringing it into class for "favorite board game day" in 1st grade (so when I was 6). Really surprised the kids didn't like it!
There's a LOT of math you can do with it too, starting with some modular arithmetic. and I guess just the idea of abstracting the attributes to 0, 1, and 2. Then you can do a little bit of group theory and how the game is Z3^4 (iirc this is the right notation? been a while), 4 copies of Z3. And there are similar card games that represent other games that you can print out cards for if they're getting excited about group theory, so you can talk about axioms of groups, and how the games represent the groups, and why it makes sense.
Also you can introduce a bit of programming too and explain like how would you teach a computer how to play this game using the invariant property that a definition of a set is that sum c_i = 0 for all i 0 -> 3. and you can also easily generalize the game to other lengths by adding additional traits (background color of the card to add one) or fewer (remove bg color of the symbol).
There's a LOT of math you can do with it too, starting with some modular arithmetic. and I guess just the idea of abstracting the attributes to 0, 1, and 2. Then you can do a little bit of group theory and how the game is Z3^4 (iirc this is the right notation? been a while), 4 copies of Z3. And there are similar card games that represent other games that you can print out cards for if they're getting excited about group theory, so you can talk about axioms of groups, and how the games represent the groups, and why it makes sense.
Also you can introduce a bit of programming too and explain like how would you teach a computer how to play this game using the invariant property that a definition of a set is that sum c_i = 0 for all i 0 -> 3. and you can also easily generalize the game to other lengths by adding additional traits (background color of the card to add one) or fewer (remove bg color of the symbol).
Anyway yeah this game is the best.