Brian N Verdine
Author
Series
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development volume 82, no. 1
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Understanding the development of spatial skills is important for improving overall success in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields (e.g., Wai, Lubinski, Benbow, & Steiger, 2010). Children use spatial skills to understand the world and can practice them via spatial assembly activities like puzzles or blocks. These skills have been linked to success in subjects like mathematics (Mix & Cheng, 2012) and science (Pallrand & Seeber,...