QTCE 3010Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Skills, Number Sense, Mental Rotation
8 Mar 2016
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Spatial thinking is the principal complement to verbal thinking . Recent studies have focused the importance of spatial thinking in learning. Spatial skills involve an individual"s capacity to mentally compare, manipulate, trans *** Spatial skills predict adults in science, technology engineering and mathematics. Magnitude and spatial reasoning use same areas of the brain. After practice with spatial transformation questions, grade 1 and2 students scored better on adding and subtraction tests. For children ses correlated with performance on spatial tasks not on syntax test. Children from higher ses groups performed better on the spatial transformation task than children *** Students need to learn to structure space. Barrier games student creates pattern behind a barrier, described pattern to other students to create. Practicing following directions, especially spatial directions helps develop spatial. Play with spatial manipulative toys blocks, puzzles, dirt. Pentominoes there are 12 keys that can be made with 5 blocks.
