Do you struggle to visualize how to rotate your shoes so that they nest together in a shoe box? How are you with flat-packed furniture? Are you good at giving directions? These everyday activities ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study published in Psychological Science. "We've provided the earliest documented evidence for ...

People use spatial skills to manipulate, organize, reason about, and make sense of spatial relationships in real and imagined spaces. Estimating how much leftover mashed potatoes will fit in a storage ...

New longitudinal research from Finland has found that children's early spatial skills and knowledge of written letters, rather than oral language skills, predict competence in math. The study included ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prisms VR, a learning platform pioneering a new paradigm for math education, today announced the consumer launch of its virtual reality (VR) math learning solution on ...

Remember the last time you assembled a chest of drawers using that black-and-white IKEA diagram? Or the last time you found your way through a new city without your GPS? In these tasks—and many others ...

Spatial reasoning connects math to the physical world and includes skills like reading maps, understanding symmetry and building 3D objects. Research indicates that spatial reasoning skills correlate ...

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 ...

Early math skills are emerging as important to later academic achievement. As many countries seek to strengthen their workforces in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields, ...

"Our work may contribute to the understanding of the nature of mathematics," says Emory psychologist Stella Lourenco, shown meeting with a young visitor to the Emory Child Study Center. Emory ...