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Spatial thinking is essential for scientific thought; it is used to represent and manipulate information in learning and problem solving (Clements Pellegrino, Alderton & Shute, 1984). Enhancing students' spatial abilities is one of roles of geometric activities. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics recommends the mathematics curriculum for grade 58 should include study of geometry of one, two, and three dimensions in a variety of situations, so that students can visualize and represent geometric figures with special attention to developing spatial sense (NCTM, 1989). However, such is not case. Current geometry curricula do not provide enough opportunities for development of spatial ability (Usiskin, 1987). Moreover, in many schools geometry is delayed until end of school year (Hoffer & Hoffer, 1992) or eliminated (Porter, 1989).
Sinan Olkun (Wed,) studied this question.