When parents describe the size and shape of objects to their preschool children and the kids then use those words in their day-to-day interactions, the children later perform much better on spatial ...

Preschool children who hear their parents describe the size and shape of objects and then use those words themselves perform better on tests of their spatial skills, researchers at the University of ...

British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Sep., 2003), pp. 449-461 (13 pages) This article draws on qualitative research with diverse women students in the UK, illustrating how ...

Parents and researchers have long speculated that play with construction toys might offer a rich environment that would support later learning in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics ...

Last January, renowned A.I. researcher Fei-Fei Li took a leave of absence from Stanford to trade academia for startup life. Nearly two years later, her venture World Labs has unveiled its first ...

This book proposes the development of spatial humanities that promises to revitalize and redefine scholarship by (re)introducing geographic concepts of space to the humanities. Humanists are fully ...

Geometry is an important branch of mathematics, which we use to understand the properties of 2D and 3D space such as distance ...

To get your budding superstar ready for his sports future, should they play with high tech video games or good old building blocks? Well, according to two new studies, that depends on if you’re ...

While a barista makes your Chocolate Crunch Frappuccino with espresso-infused whipped cream sprinkled with crushed biscotti and almonds, you flip open your thin, light laptop and do a little work. You ...