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Same or Different?

Two pictures in each row and two boxes to tick. Are they the same, or not quite?

Each row shows a pair of pictures and asks one question: same, or different? At Easy the odd pairs are two different things and the page is about looking carefully rather than deciding. At Medium and Hard the difference shrinks to a change of size, a quarter turn or a mirror image, which is the beginning of the visual discrimination reading depends on — b and d are the same shape mirrored. Every difference is checked against the picture before it is used, so a row of two circles can never be marked different for a mirroring nobody could see.

Age
ages 3–9
Answer key
Included, free
Skills
visual discriminationconcentrationlogicspatial reasoning

What you can change

  • Rows

    3–8 rows

  • Difficulty

    Easy, Medium, Hard

  • Tick boxes say

    same / different, S / D

  • Box round each row

  • Every page also takes the book's language, page size, theme and pictures.
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Draw lines to join pairs, shadows, meanings and look-alikes.

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