Geometry is inclusive Today I would like to talk about teaching geometry to students with special needs. Along with the years, education has been able to develop resources that help students with diversity to keep up with the rest of their classmates. For this reason, I consider it is more than important to learn some adaptation that we might introduce in our geometry lessons in order to be equitable and respectful with all the students. There are different ways of capturing and representing geometry objects. It is when we face a new situation we all mostly use our visual skills to identify that object or situation, therefore, these new images are progressively adapting in our brain until they form a real image. For students that might have some issues with this visual problem, there is a programme called Frostig which provides 25 ac tivities to work and develop visual-motor skills, shape and background perception, the position on the space, space relationships and visual memory.
Geometry and ceramic? does it exist? As we have seen in previous posts of this blog, geometry is not an isolated subject. Indeed, it is connected transversely with many other themes and subjects. We saw that geometry was established in many paintings of the renaissance, but can it be connected with other parts of art? Geometry is for many artists the key point on their creations, for instance, today we will see the connection of geometry with ceramics. What does ceramic mean? Ceramic is the art or technique of making objects from clay and pottery of all qualities and types. It is not a new activity that has been published on Instagram, it is an old technique created many years ago, for instance, the Greeks were very well known because of their creations. In addition, there was a ceramic style called Geometric Ceramic that consisted of the creation of glasses in old Greek. It was created in Athens, but thanks to their great marine skills they expanded this style. Nowadays, we ca