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Spatial Reasoning and Strategy Games

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Are you curious to know if playing strategy games and solving puzzles can help you with your spatial reasoning skills? Join us in this experiment to find out!

Hypothesis

The hypothesis is that people who like to solve puzzles and play strategic games will possess better spatial reasoning skills.

Method & Materials

You will select four participants - a chess player, sudoku enthusiast, rubix cube expert and a non-player - and show them photos of shapes built with Lego tiles. They will have five minutes to reconstruct the shape in the photo using the Lego set provided.
You will need a regular chess player, a regular sudoku enthusiast, a Rubic cube expert, a person who does not do puzzles or play strategy games (non-player), four Lego puzzle sets, five photos of shapes built with 20 Lego tiles, a stopwatch, and an assistant.

Results

The results showed that the chess player, sudoku puzzle player, and the rubix cube expert were able to assemble more Lego tiles correctly than the non-player participant. This proves that people who like to solve puzzles and play strategic games possess better spatial reasoning skills.

Why do this project?

This science project is interesting because it shows how playing strategy games and solving puzzles can help improve spatial reasoning skills.

Also Consider

Variations of this science project could include using standard tests for evaluating spatial reasoning abilities, comparing the spatial reasoning abilities between genders and persons of different age groups, and repeating the experiment with a larger number of participants.

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