Play may seem like fun and games, but new research shows that specific kinds of play are actually associated with development of particular cognitive skills. Data from a nationally representative ...

Excerpted from "Taking Shape: Activities to Develop Geometric and Spatial Thinking" by Joan Moss, Catherine D. Bruce, Bev Caswell, Tara Flynn, and Zachary Hawes. Published by Pearson Canada Inc., 2016 ...

While boosting kids’ math and verbal skills may draw more attention from parents and educators, spatial reasoning skills play an important -- sometimes overlooked -- role in academic and career ...

Walk into most art galleries with children, and you'll hear the familiar refrain "look but don't touch." This instruction reveals something troubling about how cultural institutions understand ...

A simple classroom activity involving a classic childhood staple, LEGO, could improve children's math and spatial ability, leading researchers to demand for policymakers to shake up school curricula ...

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 ...

Do you marvel at your friend's ability to assemble complex furniture and navigate a new city, or do you all-around groan at your own lack of spatial skills? Don't fret! A new study found that you, too ...

What Is Spatial Intelligence or Spatial Ability? According to David Lohman of the University of Iowa, spatial ability can best be defined as the ability to "generate, retain, retrieve, and transform ...

Spatial ability is a bit of a fuzzy concept. There are lots of different tests that can be used to assess it, like mentally rotating a 3D shape or reasoning out how a mechanical object would work. Are ...