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Finding the missing piece: Blocks, puzzles, and shapes fuel school readiness
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In this article, the effects of early spatial experiences and their impacts on school readiness are discussed, as well as factors that influence the amount and quality of spatial play and suggest methods for providing a "spatial education" prior to school entry.About:
This article is published in Trends in Neuroscience and Education.The article was published on 2014-03-01. It has received 130 citations till now.read more
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Building Blocks for Developing Spatial Skills Evidence From a Large, Representative U.S. Sample
Jamie Jirout,Nora S. Newcombe +1 more
TL;DR: There is evidence suggesting that children’s play with spatial toys correlates with spatial development, and a specific relation between parent-reported frequency of spatial play and Block Design scores that was invariant across gender and SES is observed.
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Effects of mental rotation training on children’s spatial and mathematics performance: A randomized controlled study
TL;DR: This article investigated the malleability of children's spatial thinking and the extent to which training-related gains in spatial thinking generalize to mathematics performance, and found that children who received spatial training demonstrated significant gains on two measures of mental rotation and marginally significant improvements on an untrained mental transformation task; a finding that suggests that training may have had a general effect on children’s spatial ability.
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They can interact, but can they learn? Toddlers' transfer learning from touchscreens and television.
TL;DR: Results indicate that a bidirectional transfer deficit persists through 3 years, with younger children showing a greater transfer deficit; despite high perceptual similarities and social engagement, children learned less in transfer tasks, supporting the memory flexibility account of the transfer deficit.
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The Roles of Patterning and Spatial Skills in Early Mathematics Development.
TL;DR: This article assessed preschool children's repeating patterning skills, spatial skills, general cognitive skills and math knowledge at the beginning of the pre-kindergarten year and found that repeated patterns are a unique predictor of math knowledge and growth.
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Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children
TL;DR: Evidence on the effects of early environments on child, adolescent, and adult achievement and how early inputs strongly affect the productivity of later inputs is summarized.
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Emergence and characterization of sex differences in spatial ability: a meta-analysis.
Marcia C. Linn,Anne C. Petersen +1 more
TL;DR: Meta-analysis is used, a method for synthesizing empirical studies, to investigate sex differences in spatial ability and suggests that sex differences arise on some types of spatial ability but not others, and that, when sex differences are found, they can be detected across the life span.
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Spatial ability for STEM domains: Aligning over 50 years of cumulative psychological knowledge solidifies its importance.
TL;DR: The importance of spatial ability in educational pursuits and the world of work was examined in this article, with particular attention devoted to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) domains.