Spatial skills are proving to be not just essential to maths skills but also a strong predictors of future success. The concept of 'spatial reasoning' has gained renewed prominence among mathematics ...

Do you struggle to visualise 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. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...

Every parent thinks their child is smart: but have you ever wondered if your offspring is actually a child genius? Now you might be able to find out how they’re going to fare with mathematics later on ...

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 ...

Emily Farran received funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the Economic and Social Research Council, the British Academy and the Centre for Educational Neuroscience to carry out research discussed in ...