How can we improve the spatial intelligence?

László Aszalós – Mária Bakó

Abstract

H. Gardner introduced the idea of multiple intelligences. One type of these intelligences is the spatial intelligence. P. H. Maier in his thesis [1] distinguished five elements of the spatial intelligence: spatial perception, visualization, mental rotation, spatial relation, and spatial orientation. Maier showed a modular construction system of polyhedrons, and different activities to improve the student's spatial abilities using these polyhedrons. Our aim is the students can work without actual models, just imaging the solids. To reach this level we wrote for our student several programs generate different kind of spatial problems, and correct their answers. Our experiments shows by using these programs the students result getting better and better, so we can improve their spatial intelligence. In this paper we introduce our programs and our experimental results.  
 
Kew-words and Phrases: spatial intelligence, visualisation, mental rotation, spatial relation, spatial orientation

Reference
[1] P.H. Maier, Raumgeometrie mit Raumvorstellung, Thesen zur Neustrukturierung des Geometrieunterrichts, 1999
Postal address
László Aszalós					 
Institute of Informatics
University of Debrecen					 
4010 Debrecen, P.O.B 12, Hungary 
aszalos at inf.unideb.hu

Mária Bakó					 
Fazekas Mihály Secondary School
4025 Debrecen, Hatvan u. 44, Hungary