Non-verbal Reasoning · 2D Views of 3D Solids
View Matcher
Scrub the camera round and watch the solid squash flat into a drawing.
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Why this works
A view is what the solid looks like with all the depth squashed out of it, so two cubes lined up one behind the other leave only ONE square on the paper. Work out the outline first, then work out which way round it goes: most wrong answers are the right outline flipped or turned.
Helping a child through View Matcher
It runs in 2 steps
- 1. Flatten it. Scrub the camera all the way round and watch the solid squash flat into the drawing beside it.
- 2. Pick the view. Which of these four is the front view of the solid?
Hints, least revealing first
- Drag the scrub track slowly. The solid squashes flat along the direction you are looking, and what is left is the drawing.
- Check the square that sticks out on its own first, then check which way round it sits.
- One cube here hides exactly behind another one, so the drawing has fewer squares than the solid has cubes.
When they finish it: “Flat on.”
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View Matcher practises one skill. Non-verbal Reasoning has 22 of them
A free diagnostic covers every non-verbal reasoning skill and the other three subjects, and comes back with a shortlist rather than a list.