Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found that children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial ...

Young children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial rotation exercises, according to a large study. The findings ...

You have probably watched Robert Downey Jr. doing some really impressive mathematical calculations and spinning some shrewd logic to catch some bad guys in Victorian London. That is, if you’ve seen ...

Educational Studies in Mathematics, Vol. 52, No. 1 (2003), pp. 29-55 (27 pages) Video recordings of three undergraduate students' textbook-based homework are analysed. A focus is on the ways their ...

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 ...

The type of cognitive exercises practised by young children plays a key role in improving their maths skills, researchers have found. A new large-scale study found that reasoning and visual working ...

Choose appropriate methods or models for a given problem, using information from observation or knowledge of the system being studied. Employ quantitative methods, mathematical models, statistics, and ...