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SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS

Knowing where you are with respect to other objects, distin-
guishing between two similar objects, and finding similarities
between two objects are examples of skills in spatial relationships.
In general, having good spatial-relationship skills means that
you are comfortable and working well with the three-dimen-
sional world. Kinesthetic learners usually have wonderful spa-
tial-relationship skills. They seldom get lost. They know where
their keys are! They function well with their bodies. Often, they
are fine athletes. They make fine quilters. They generally pos-
sess the body/kinesthetic intelligence Gardner tells us about.
Those of us without a native ability in this area require training
to develop spatial-relationship skills. This section provides an
introduction to and exercises in spatial relationships (SR).
First, consider inductive reasoning with objects. This
will carry over from the previous section and tie in spatial
skills. You will use a table of objects as your “space.” Each
section of your table contains a special character, a i. If you
would like to name this object, and some of you will find no
need to do so, you may call it a burst. Notice that the location
of the i varies in each cell.

i i i

i i i

i i i