From stacking blocks to solving puzzles, playtime can be a powerful launchpad for your child’s science, technology, engineering, and math skills. Research shows that early playful learning boosts ...

New research from Florida International University finds that children as young as three use adult-like mental rotation strategies to solve puzzles, a skill linked to later STEM success. Early ...

Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Throughout much of human history, it has been assumed by both men and women that men are somehow better able to solve so-described spatial problems than are women. This apparent ...