Ideas to practise
- Perimeter. Add the lengths around the outside. Do not confuse perimeter with area.
- Area and composite shapes. Find the area of the whole and subtract missing parts. Boundary lengths and square units answer different questions.
- Solids and nets. Follow which faces meet when folded. A face touching another in the net cannot be opposite it.
- Reflection and symmetry. A mirror reverses left and right, but not top and bottom.
- Angles. A right angle is 90 degrees; a straight angle is 180 degrees.
- Routes and constraints. Follow only the allowed paths. At a junction, add the ways arriving from its incoming paths.
A game mission has 8 untimed questions. Only the game saves choices and hints. A finished mission earns one launch charge and participation towards the Habitat ring in Nebula Research Station. The chapter goal is 8 different questions in finished sets; hints and wrong answers count as participation, not mastery. Some craft systems link more than one chapter.
Explore
Foundations: read a representation and practise the underlying idea.
- Find a perimeter from a word problem
- Find an area, a tile count or a missing side
- Count faces, edges and vertices of solids
- Complete a reflected sensor panel
- Complete angles along a straight edge
- Measure an L-shaped laboratory bench
Play ExploreReason
Paper-style reasoning: connect clues, interpret a diagram or work backwards.
- Find a perimeter from a word problem
- Find the unknown side of a stepped shape
- Find an area, a tile count or a missing side
- Count faces, edges and vertices of solids
- Measure an L-shaped laboratory bench
- Complete a reflected sensor panel
- Find an opposite face in a cube net
- Complete angles along a straight edge
Play ReasonStretch
Higher-order practice: link conditions, test statements and avoid a tempting wrong method.
- Find the unknown side of a stepped shape
- Find a perimeter from a word problem
- Find an area, a tile count or a missing side
- Measure an L-shaped laboratory bench
- Complete a reflected sensor panel
- Find an opposite face in a cube net
- Complete angles along a straight edge
- Count grid routes through a checkpoint
Play Stretch
Levels change representations, clues and conditions, not just the numbers. These are practice formats, not validated exam-equivalent difficulty.
Using the feedback
Learning reports distinguish hinted answers from independent first choices. They consider up to 20 recent different, unhinted questions per skill and level, and wait for at least five before suggesting extra practice. Repeating the same question does not add evidence. Reports are practice evidence, not IQ scores, diagnoses, ranks or predictions of competition results.
Ask the learner to explain a drawing or check with objects too. Choose Explore or an earlier chapter when a step feels too large.
Sources & limits
The grade topics use SOF IMO Class 4 published topic syllabus as their primary reference. The SOF sample and CREST previous-year paper below informed representations and reasoning demands. Providers have different topic boundaries; their syllabi are not interchangeable.
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