When Nicole Thomson first heard about the importance of teaching spatial reasoning and geometry in her kindergarten math curriculum she had already been teaching for several years. Her teacher ...

Training young children in spatial reasoning can improve their math performance, according to a groundbreaking study. Training young children in spatial reasoning can improve their math performance, ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...

Play time is lots of fun for your young child, but it could also be an opportunity to improve their math skills. Jessica Sanchez has more on a study that looks at how parents can build up their ...

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Kelly Mix of Michigan State University reveals the connection between math ability and visual spatial training. Kelly Mix is a professor of educational psychology in ...

Researchers at the University of Chicago are offering more evidence that exposing kids to spatial learning at an early age helps them to better understand math concepts when they’re older. In February ...

Preschools and kindergartens long have taught children “task skills,” such as cutting paper and coloring inside the lines. But new research suggests the spatial and fine-motor skills learned in ...

All of us, children included, live in a three-dimensional universe—but too often parents and teachers act as if the physical world is as flat as a worksheet or the page of a book. We call kids’ ...

The project explores the effects of spatial representations of number magnitude on children's learning of advanced arithmetic strategies, a key predictor of math achievement. A series of studies will ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Training young children in spatial reasoning can improve their math performance, according to a groundbreaking study from Michigan State University education scholars. The ...