To learn more about the development of children’s spatial skills and reasoning, take a look at these resources:
Erikson Institute Early Math Collaborative | Shape
Erikson Institute Early Math Collaborative | Spatial Relationships
High Five Mathematize | An Early Head Start and Head Start Math Resource Guide
Learning and Teaching with Learning Trajectories | Early Math – Birth to Grade 3
Mathematica | Developing Math Skills in Early Childhood
National Association for the Education of Young Children | Math
Too Small to Fail | Let’s Talk About Math
Zero to Three | Let’s Talk About Math
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- Direction and movement
- refers to the path along which a person or object moves
- Shape awareness
- is the ability to recognize and identify shapes
- Space and position
- refers to the relationship between objects
- Spatial awareness
- includes understanding shape, size, space, position, direction, and movement
- Spatial language
- refers to words that describe the location of objects in space
- Spatial thinking
- is a set of mental skills that we use to reason about the shape, size, position, direction, and movement of objects