Abstract: This study examined the individual difference of figural reasoning strategies in 145 children selected from a primary school by 14 figures selected from CRT Raven Progressive Matrix under a series of rules.The results showed that there is significant difference in strategy use between the higher level children and the lower level children whose characteristic is same to the children's in the first grade.Except the Gestalt problems,children with higher reasoning ability and those with lower showed differences while using strategy.No matter what higher level children and the lower level children all use perceptual operation strategy in easy Gestalt problems.The higher and middle level mathematic and reaming ability's children use mostly analytic strategy and perceptual strategy,and low level children use perceptual matching strategy in the Quantitative pair wise progression,Figure addition or subtraction,two level rules,Distribution of two values,Distribution of three values problems.

Key words: strategy, figural reasoning, CRT Raven Progressive Matrix primary scholars