Discovering the different faces of Geometry

  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...

  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 styl...

Geometry and video games  Nowadays, it is very common to see how many children spend most of their evenings playing video games in their rooms. There are many people who seem to be against this action and prefer to prohibit this behaviour. However, video games can give us more benefits than we can imagine. Indeed, some video games provide us with examples of geometry that can help students to change their perspective about this theme which is most of the time a boring perspective. For this reason, I want to share with you different types of games that are connected to geometry. So, take advantage of it and instead of prohibiting this habit, encourage your students to play those video games while analysing their geometries characteristics. Some researchers claim to say that while playing these video games, students will be able to work with rotation and translation movement. Moreover, these games have a great impact on the learning process of students. Many of the examples that I wi...

  Nature, education and geometry As we all know, geometry is around us, however, not always our students are aware of this fact. For this reason, today I have some examples that show how close we are to geometry and also how to take advantage of it in our lessons. The first example I want to share with you is the famous Giant’s Causeway.   Let’s see first some details It is an area that is compounded by 40 000 basalt columns, it was created because of an eruption of a volcano 60 million years ago. It is located in Northern Ireland and it was declared a World Heritage site in 1986. The history of this area is based on a myth. It is said that many years ago, two giants, one from Ireland and the other from Staffa had a bad relationship and they were constantly throwing rocks at each other. After throwing all those rocks they created a long field of rocks. The Scottish giant decided to walk the path of rocks and defeat his enemy. When the wife of the other giant saw the Scott...

  Geometry and movement During many years, teachers used to give their lesson by isolating the subjects, there was no space for the union of some of them. However, over the years many researchers have proved the importance of working transversely. For this reason, today I will give you some tips as well as information that you may use in your future geometry lessons.  In the learning of geometry, it is relevant to identify the geometric figures and learn their characteristics. Using games in your lessons provides you students with new opportunities to obtain motivation and to see mathematics as part of your real life. Geometry is one of the most intuitive subjects of mathematics since it is connected with reality ( (International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 1998, p. 337). This connexion with reality allows teachers to teach these subjects to children from early ages, therefore, their perception of mathematics could be more positive. All in all, this information say...