Neat freaks rejoice. A new game tests your spatial awareness by letting you declutter a room. Empty presents the player with a brightly colored, three-dimensional room filled with minimalist objects.

Pivvot bills itself as a “game of strategic avoidance.” In Pivvot, the player controls a ball tethered to a winding track by tapping the sides of the screen, maneuvering around various obstacles that ...

Excerpted from "Taking Shape: Activities to Develop Geometric and Spatial Thinking" by Joan Moss, Catherine D. Bruce, Bev Caswell, Tara Flynn, and Zachary Hawes. Published by Pearson Canada Inc., 2016 ...