Over the last quarter century, the dominant tendency in comparative cognitive psychology
has been to emphasize the similarities between human and nonhuman minds and to …

There are many continuous quantitative dimensions in the physical world. Philosophical,
psychological, and neural work has focused mostly on space and number. However, there …

The present study examined predictors of student's knowledge of fraction concepts and
procedures in sixth grade (N= 334). Predictors included both math-specific and more …

For many centuries, philosophers and scientists have pondered the origins and nature of
human intuitions about the properties of points, lines, and figures on the Euclidean plane …

This second edition of The Child as Thinker has been thoroughly revised and updated to
provide an informed and accessible overview of the varied and extensive literature on …

The human brain appears to have several “regions” that are structured to do different kinds
of spatial thinking, according to a large and rapidly growing body of research in a number of …

Using a longitudinal approach, this study investigated the relational structure of different
spatial transformation skills at kindergarten age, and how these spatial skills relate to …

Over the past several years,“spatial reasoning” has gained renewed prominence among
mathematics educators, as spatial skills are proving to be not just essential to mathematical …

This chapter is a selective review of spatial development, stressing several points. First, we
suggest that spatial development can be usefully considered to have two strands:(a) the …

This study examines the development of children's ability to reason about proportions that
involve either discrete entities or continuous amounts. Six-, 8-and 10-year olds were …