Spatial Skills First: The Importance of Mental Rotation for Arithmetic Skill Acquisition

Abstract: Considering the importance of arithmetic in school curricula, it is crucial to understand the cognitive processes underlying its successful acquisition. Previous research suggests the involvement of spatial skills, especially during arithmetic skill acquisition. We assessed the predictive effect of mental rotation on different arithmetic components in children halfway through elementary school. At this stage, additions and subtractions are already well mastered, while multiplications and divisions are newly acquired. Although mental rotation positively correlated with arithmetic performances regardless of operation, only multiplication, division and completion performances were significantly predicted by mental rotation when controlling for age, gender as well as domain-specific symbolic number skills and visuospatial short-term memory. This highlights the differential effects of mental rotation on arithmetic and suggests a particular importance for newly acquired arithmetic materi.... https://jnc.psychopen.eu/index.php/jnc/article/view/5839

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Spatial Skills First: The Importance of Mental Rotation for Arithmetic Skill Acquisition ; volume:5 ; number:1 ; day:05 ; month:04 ; year:2019 ; Journal of numerical cognition ; 5, Heft 1 (05.04.2019)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Georges, Carrie ; Cornu, Véronique ; Schiltz, Christine

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.5964/jnc.v5i1.165
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021032004144756562401
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 15.08.2025, 07:31 MESZ