Saturday, 29 October 2011

::Geometry = Visualizing::

Example of activity that the teacher could to in a classroom to teach visualizing:


Teach the children about 3-D shapes such as cube, cuboid, cone and pyramid.



 

Ask the children 'feel' the shape by imagine themselves inside that particular 3-D shape, and ask them to identify and show how many sides and faces do the shapes have.

The teacher could also encourage group competition where in groups; the children have to guess and identify what shape does the group representative or the teacher is trying to show in front of the classroom. The group that has the highest mark will win the game. 

After that, individually, give them a 'feel box' and let them guess and pick the correct shape according to the teacher's instruction. For example: " Pick me a shape that has 6 square faces and 12 equal sides". (the answer is cube)


The children is using the 'feel box'.

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