What Does Play Have to Do With It? A Concrete and Digital Spatial Intervention With 3-Year-Olds Predicts Spatial and Math Learning

Spatial skills like block building and puzzle making are associated with later growth in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning. How these early spatial experiences-both in concrete and digital platforms-boost children's spatial skills remains a mystery. This study examined...

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Published in:Developmental psychology 2025-03, Vol.61 (3), p.461-481
Main Authors: Bower, Corinne A., Zimmermann, Laura, Verdine, Brian N., Spiewak Toub, Tamara, Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy, Michnick Golinkoff, Roberta
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Child Development - physiology
Child, Preschool
Comprehension
Early Childhood Development
Education
Feedback
Female
Gestures
Human
Humans
Identification
Language
Learning
Learning transfer
Male
Mathematical Ability
Mathematics
Mathematics - education
Mathematics Achievement
Mathematics skills
Parent-child relations
Parents & parenting
Preschool children
Preschool Education
Science and technology
Skill development
Skills
Space Perception
Spatial Ability
Spatial Learning
Spatial Learning - physiology
Training
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