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THREE dimensional images are likely to be the shape of things to come when it comes to teaching mathematics and science in the kingdom's classrooms.
Pupils at the AMA School of Basic Education in Budaiya - which boasts 475 students, aged between three and 15, will be able to feel their way around the subjects rather than be restricted to the use of paper, pencil and a blackboard.
The Lawrence Hall of Science, the public science education centre at the University of California at Berkeley, has developed a GEMS (Great Explorations in Maths and Science) programme that uses 'spatial intelligence' to enable learning among students.
Using a variety of materials such as filler shapes, pattern blocks, newspaper and polyhedras - three, four and five-sided plastic shapes that can be fitted together - students from Grade One to Nine will use the GEMS programme to supplement their course work in both subjects.
