The role of movement in young children's spatial experiences: a review of early childhood mathematics education research

C McCluskey, A Kilderry, J Mulligan… - Mathematics Education …, 2023 - Springer
Young children's spatial reasoning is critical to mathematics learning from an early age.
Recent reviews have drawn attention to the importance of mathematical experiences in the …

Boys and girls gain in spatial, but not in mathematical ability after mental rotation training in primary education

A Rodán, P Gimeno, MR Elosúa, PR Montoro… - Learning and Individual …, 2019 - Elsevier
Several studies have shown that spatial skills can be improved and are linked to
mathematical reasoning. However, there are few studies that have evaluated the effect of …

Mathematical achievement: The role of spatial and motor skills in 6–8 year-old children

LM Fernández-Méndez, MJ Contreras, IC Mammarella… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Several studies have tried to establish the factors that underlie mathematical ability across
development. Among them, spatial and motor abilities might play a relevant role, but no …

Doubling mental rotation scores in high school students: Effects of motivational and strategic trainings

A Moe - Learning and Instruction, 2021 - Elsevier
Achievement in mathematics, science, biology, chemistry, and other school subjects
requiring abstract reasoning on spatial relationships is favored by mental rotation abilities …

Can video game training improve the two-dimensional mental rotation ability of young children? A randomized controlled trial

X Liu, H Huang, K Yu, D Dou - … Conference, HCI-Games 2020, Held as …, 2020 - Springer
Mental rotation skill has been constantly shown to reliably predict science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) achievements, and is a major component of spatial …

[PDF][PDF] Eficacia del entrenamiento espacial en primaria y secundaria: todos aprenden

A Rodán, PR Montoro, A Martínez-Molina… - Educación XX1, 2022 - redalyc.org
El procesamiento visoespacial es clave para lograr, entre otros, un rendimiento óptimo en
actividades académicas. En el ámbito de la cognición espacial se ha encontrado que la …

[PDF][PDF] Effectiveness of spatial training in elementary and secondary school: everyone learns

A Rodán, PR Montoro, A Martínez-Molina… - Educación …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Visuospatial processing is key to achieve optimal performance in academic activities,
among others. In the field of spatial cognition, it has been found that practice with spatial …

Karinna A. Rodriguez, Nick Mattox, Carlos Desme, LaTreese V. Hall

Y Wu, SM Pruden - Advances in Child Development and …, 2024 - books.google.com
Abstract According to the Relational Developmental Systems perspective, the development
of individual differences in spatial thinking (eg, mental rotation, spatial reorientation, and …

Monitoring the own spatial thinking in second grade of primary education in a Spanish school: Preliminary study analyzing gender differences

MJ Contreras, C Meneghetti, DH Uttal… - Education …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Previous studies on metacognitive performance have explored children's abilities during
primary school (7–11 years) in abstract and mathematical reasoning tasks. However, there …

Harnessing technology to measure individual differences in spatial thinking in early childhood from a relational developmental systems perspective

KA Rodriguez, N Mattox, C Desme… - Advances in child …, 2024 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
According to the Relational Developmental Systems perspective, the development of
individual differences in spatial thinking (eg, mental rotation, spatial reorientation, and …