Analytical topics for ages 9–10
The reasoning no subject teaches directly: spotting patterns, following a rule, working backwards from a result, and telling a sound argument from a plausible one.
Middle-primary work: multi-step problems, real vocabulary, and the first topics where a wrong method matters more than a wrong answer.
20 topics · 120 hands-on stations · 1 free to try
Patterns Everywhere
A pattern is something that repeats by a rule. Find the rule and you can predict what comes next — which is what all reasoning really is. Flip every card.
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Black-white-black-white. Nature is full of repeating rules — and each zebra's exact pattern is unique, like a fingerprint.
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Mon, Tue… Sun, then the whole week begins again. A cycle of 7 that never stops.
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Growing and shrinking on the same rule every month — about 29½ days.
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Red, amber, green, and back. Every driver in the world trusts this repeating rule.
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Free printable worksheet
Ten questions from Pattern Power on one page, with an answer key at the bottom — a PDF you can print for homework, a car journey or a classroom. No account needed and nothing to sign up for.
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A few of the Analytical topics at this age
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Pattern Power
FreeFinding the rule that repeats — the root of all reasoning
👀 Patterns Everywhere · 🔮 What Comes Next? · 🧱 Build the Pattern · 🗂️ Repeating or Growing? · 🔷 Shape Patterns · 🎯 Practice Zone
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Number Sequences
Finding the jump, the double, and the rule behind the numbers
🦘 Look at the Gaps · 🔍 Find the Rule · 🌱 Watch a Rule Build · 🗂️ Which Kind of Rule? · 🕳️ The Missing Middle · 🎯 Practice Zone
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Odd One Out
Finding what three things share — and what the fourth does not
🧠 How to Find the Odd One · 🔤 Odd Word Out · 🔢 Odd Number Out · 🗂️ Sort by the Shared Rule · ⚖️ When Two Answers Work · 🎯 Practice Zone
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Analogies
A is to B as C is to what — spotting the relationship
🧩 How Analogies Work · 🎯 Complete the Analogy · 🏷️ Name the Relationship · 🗂️ Sort by Relationship · 🧠 Trickier Analogies · 🎯 Practice Zone
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Codes & Ciphers
Letter shifts, number codes and cracking a secret message
🔢 The Alphabet Is a Number Line · ➡️ Shift the Letters · 🔍 Crack the Code · 🔟 Number Codes · 🗂️ Which Kind of Code? · 🎯 Practice Zone
…and 15 more Analytical topics for ages 9–10 inside the app, each one a full trail of hands-on stations. Create a free account to explore them.
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