The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a prestigious competition featuring talented high school students from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about psychology and education research and policy. Joni Lakin: Sometimes it's okay to recognize talent based on intuition ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When 2D puzzles are no longer exciting, 3D brain teasers are the way. These handheld puzzles require ...

Do you marvel at your friend's ability to assemble complex furniture and navigate a new city, or do you all-around groan at your own lack of spatial skills? Don't fret! A new study found that you, too ...

Duke University Talent Identification Program researcher Jonathan Wai has an interesting column in which he questions why our educational system doesn't value spatial reasoning as much as it values ...

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Spatial reasoning measured in infancy predicts how children do at math at four years of age, finds a new study. It provides the earliest documented evidence for a relationship between spatial ...

Walk into most art galleries with children, and you'll hear the familiar refrain "look but don't touch." This instruction reveals something troubling about how cultural institutions understand ...