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 ...

Playtime is lots of fun for your young child, but it could also be an opportunity to improve their math skills. Spatial skills, or the ability to describe where objects are in relationship to other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 25 (UPI) -- Using cell phones and playing video games may not be as harmful to children's academic performance as many think, U.S. researchers suggest. A team of Michigan State ...