Geometry in School

Hello everyone! Today I would like to share with you my ideas to work with students lines (straight line and curve line), perpendicular, secant line and parallel, for the 3rd grade of primary education. The first thing that I thought was that I would not give to the students an explication and book's exercises, because in that way they would not understand completely those concepts. So I decided to join geometry and real life, and show them that the geometry is everywhere and not just in concepts and books. My proposal started with a riddle: today we are going to work with something that is always everywhere, what is it? After three minutes saying a lot of things, students guessed right that was the lines and we started to point different lines in class. I explained them the different types of lines and crossings with real examples of objects inside the class, and when they understand it, we went to the playground for a better comprehension. I ask them to be in pairs or gro...

Hello everyone! In the first day of class, we saw a TEDx of Nigel Nisbet, "The Geometry of Chocolate", which really inspire me. The geometry of chocolate: Nigel Nisbet at TEDxOrangeCoast Nisbet explains that he arrived to class and there was not any student motivated for his subject and he did not know what to do with them until one day he thinks in make them a riddle: " Why make a chocolate bar in the shape of triangular prism?". Anyone understood it, but searching information and helping between them, they founded the solution: the bar of chocolate was like this because the producers save money in this way. So in this moment, the geometry joins with the economy. And that is how Nisbet decided to teach geometry, through maths problems of the real live. I think that Nisbet is an example for a lot of teacher, because sometimes we just get into the routine and we forget what Education is about, so we focus on the concepts and books and we forget that we hav...

Hello everyone! My name is Paula Giménez, I am a student in 3ºB of Degree in Bilingual Primary Education of the University of Málaga. In this blog I want to share with you interesting information about the geometry in schools. I hope you like it!