These cognitive exercises help children boost their math skills, study shows
Young children who practice visual working memory and reasoning tasks improve their math skills more than children who focus on spatial rotation exercises, according to a large study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. The findings support the notion that training spatial cognition can enhance academic performance and that when it comes to math, the type of training matters. The study is published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.“In this large, randomized study we found that when it comes to enhancing mathematical learning in young children, the type of cognitive