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Spatial reasoning and mathematics in early childhood education

Rachel Pollitt, Wee Tiong Seah, Caroline Cohrssen

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Spatial reasoning is a set of cognitive functions, processes and skills that enable us to understand and describe representations and spatial relationships between objects, ourselves and our environment-it is a life skill. Spatial reasoning is at the core of mathematical thinking. There are three key areas of spatial reasoning associated with mathematics ability in early childhood: perspective taking, mental rotation and spatial visualisation.

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Key concepts: Spatial intelligence, Spatial ability, Spatial cognition, Set (abstract data type), Perspective (graphical), Cognition, Mental rotation, Project commissioning