how best to learn/practise mathematical reasoning?

[koalalou]

Does anyone have any recommendations or suggestions? This is one of the things tested by a school we are looking at for DD. It's not quite verbal reasoning and it's not quite non-verbal reasoning...

How old is the child?

Can I suggest that you ask the school - having just gone through this with a friend's DD - there is a wide variance between the papers and different styles of book. The school she applied to suggested the Susan Daughtrey series among others - you can find 4 books and additional exercises on Amazon. The last two books are basically mathematical codes / logic type things. I'm not sure if that is what you are looking for. Also try 11+ forum - but you will have to state the school if you want someone to give you proper advice. Basically the school she tried for had a list of recommended books for verbal reasoning and whilst they said to only get one set to practice, the exam was a synthesis of the different books........and under half the questions were like the Bond type questions.

All depends on if it is a "mathematical reasoning paper" or a "verbal reasoning paper" that contains maths based / code based questions IYSWIM. If the former how about trying maths books labelled as 'problem solving'?

Hope someone more helpful comes along......

Hi, thank you for your responses. DD is 9 and its for entry to a high (secondary) school in Australia. They have an example paper on their website and the section is called Mathematical Reasoning, and it isn't quite like the VR or NVR papers that I have seen here (Bonds). The examples include a table or matrix where you have to fill in the blanks, and a thermometer where you have to work out the increase in temperature over a period of time. So not 'verbal'.

Table where you fill in the blanks, sounds like Sudoku
maths puzzle web pages seem reasonably easy to find in Google

Sorry, no not just blanks - I was writing a quick description. It is a table/matrix where you follow a pattern to fill in the blanks. A mathematical pattern, not suduko iyswim.

PM me the school name, and if I can see the paper I can tell you if the Daughtrey books are similar. From the sounds of the thermometer though, you probably need books like Schofield & Sims Problem Solving. Any big bookshops near where you are based that you could go and browse in?

hi omg, will do thanks.