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) this week explaining that training spatial cognition can enhance mathematical capabilities. The study isn’t explicitly focused on Lego sets, but Legos do involve plenty of spatial cognition exercises.
The children in the study spent half their time studying math and the other half exercising various types of cognitive training. The non-math part of the program included tangram puzzles, 2D rotation tasks, non-verbal reasoning, and visuospatial working memory tasks. Rotation training had the smallest effect in the study. The authors discovered that training on memory was more effective than rotation training.
The researchers think the finding of this sizeable randomized data set should influence future policies related to studying mathematics and also related subjects, including technology and engineering.
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