Non-Verbal Reasoning

Shapes, patterns, spatial reasoning and visual logic. We build the skills to tackle abstract reasoning questions with confidence.

Whole Curriculum Adaptation for Non-Verbal Reasoning

Most learning apps adapt within a single topic – if your child struggles with a question, they see an easier one.

HeyKitsu goes further. Our Whole Curriculum Adaptation looks across everything your child is learning and builds a path that makes sense.

If they're confident with shape rotations but finding spatial folding questions tricky, we'll adjust – recognising that building stronger mental visualisation skills will help across multiple question types.

The result is a learning journey that develops flexible visual thinking, not just pattern recognition in isolation.

Full curriculum coverage for Non-Verbal Reasoning

2D Shapes

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Master the art of seeing and transforming shapes in visual challenges. In this topic, you'll develop powerful spatial reasoning skills by finding hidden shapes in complex images, reflecting patterns across lines of symmetry and rotating objects to see them from different angles. You'll learn how to visualise transformations before they happen, like predicting what a shape will look like when flipped or turned. These skills help you solve puzzles where shapes combine to create new pictures, and understand how patterns appear when paper is folded and unfolded.

Finding shapes

Explore challenges where you find shapes or objects in complex images. Learn how to examine cluttered or overlapping pictures carefully and use visual discrimination skills to work out what is present or absent.

Reflecting patterns

Discover how to reflect patterns and shapes across a line of symmetry. Learn how to predict what reflected images will look like, identify correct reflections and understand how patterns appear when folded paper is unfolded along a line.

Reflections and rotations

Understand how images can be transformed through reflections and rotations. Learn how to visualise what an image will look like after being flipped or rotated, identify which transformation has been applied and predict the position and orientation of objects after these movements.

Shape logic

Explore puzzles where you combine shapes to create new pictures. Learn how to visualise how shapes fit together, identify the correct combination of multiple pieces and use spatial reasoning to solve shape combination challenges.

3D Shapes

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Discover the world of three-dimensional shapes through hands-on challenges that develop your spatial reasoning skills. You'll find out how flat patterns called "nets" fold into pyramids, prisms and cubes, learning to visualise which faces connect and what each 3D shape looks like when unfolded. Build your understanding by exploring how shapes combine and stack to create complex structures, and develop the ability to picture what these structures look like from different viewpoints – especially from directly above.

3D shape nets

Learn about nets, which are flat patterns that fold up to make 3D shapes. Discover how to visualise which nets will create which 3D shapes like pyramids, prisms and cylinders, and work out what a shape's net would look like when unfolded flat.

3D shapes from above

Discover what 3D structures look like when viewed from directly above. Learn how to visualise the top view of three-dimensional shapes, identify which parts would be visible from above and work out the plan view of different structures.

Combining 3D shapes

Explore how 3D shapes like cubes, cuboids and prisms can be combined or stacked together to create more complex structures. Learn how to visualise which individual pieces make up a combined shape, count the number of cubes or blocks used, and work out how shapes fit together when viewed from different angles.

Nets and cubes

Learn how flat patterns called nets fold up to create cubes, and discover which faces will be opposite, adjacent or connected when the cube is assembled. Develop spatial reasoning skills by visualising how 2D nets with different symbols, colours or patterns will look when folded into 3D cubes.

Rotating 3D shapes

Discover how 3D block structures look when turned through different angles. Learn how to visualise what shapes will look like after rotation, predict the new orientation of three-dimensional structures and identify which option correctly shows a rotated 3D shape.

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Patterns

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Unlock the power of pattern recognition and logical thinking. Patterns are everywhere in mathematics and the world around us – from sequences of numbers to visual designs that follow hidden rules. In this topic, you'll become a pattern detective, working out what comes next in sequences and discovering the rules that make patterns work. You'll tackle matrix puzzles where shapes, colours or positions change in systematic ways. By carefully observing what stays the same and what changes from one step to the next, you'll develop the logical reasoning skills needed to predict missing pieces and complete sequences with confidence.

Matrices

Complete patterns by working out what comes next. Learn how to identify rules in visual sequences, spot what changes from one box to the next and use logical thinking to determine the missing piece that completes the pattern.

Sequences

Complete sequences by figuring out what comes next. Identify rules in visual patterns, spot what changes from one box to the next and logically extend the pattern to find the right answer.

Shape pairs

Learn how pairs of images relate to one-another. Spot what changes in the first pair of images, then apply the same rules to a new image to reach the answer.

Unusual matrices

Solve spatial reasoning puzzles by analysing patterns. Learn how to decode visual sequences, recognise transformation rules and use systematic logic to work out which piece correctly completes the matrix.

Recognition and association

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Sharpen your pattern recognition and logical reasoning skills through engaging visual puzzles that train your brain to spot connections others might miss. You'll start by identifying what makes groups similar and finding the odd one out, then progress to more complex challenges involving shape analogies and coded patterns. These puzzles develop crucial thinking skills used every day – from sorting information into categories, to spotting when something doesn't fit, to cracking codes by identifying rules and relationships.

Match to a group

Learn how to identify common properties shared by a group of shapes and use these properties to decide which new shape belongs to the group. Discover how to spot patterns based on colour, size, position, number of sides or other features, and apply logical reasoning to classify shapes correctly.

Odd one out

Explore puzzles where you identify which item doesn't belong. Learn how to compare features like shape, colour, size, pattern or position to determine which item breaks the rule that all the others follow.

Pairing shapes

Learn about analogy puzzles where you identify the relationship between a first pair of images. Discover how to spot transformations involving colour, size, position, rotation or other properties, and use logical reasoning to work out which image completes the pattern.

Shape codes

Learn about shape coding puzzles where different features like outer shapes, inner shapes, shading or patterns are each represented by a letter. Discover how to work out the code by comparing examples, identify the rules and use logical deduction to determine the correct two-letter code for a new shape.

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