Exploring the World of Geometry with Andrea

  Welcome one more day to the blog where we discover more about the world of geometry!  In today's blog, we will be working on origami. Origami comes from Japanese art and consists of folding paper to create figures and different shapes without using scissors or glue; in the past, this kind of practice was considered as an artistic hobby. Origami is a good tool for students to explore new geometric concepts through manipulation and practice. Although origami is often thought of as simply an artistic activity, it is also a powerful educational tool through which students discover new concepts of geometry by developing their own creativity. Japanese art encourages creativity and concentration, as students engage in an active, hands-on, manipulative learning process in which each step brings them a little closer to geometry.  Putting this into practice in a primary school classroom offers many exciting opportunities for students to teach the most didactic parts of geometry i...

  Welcome to another blog post to continue discovering the different ways of geometry! Have you ever wondered how we could work on art and geometry in the classroom in an interactive and fun way? A good way to introduce this to pupils could be with a board game called "Tangram"; a game designed to develop students' imagination and challenge their minds, this game is made up of a set of seven simple geometric figures. These figures are mainly characterised by being versatile and easy to combine, allowing the creation of a great variety of figures with different ranges of difficulty. The figures we can combine are: a square, a small parallelogram and five triangles with different shapes and sizes.. The aim of this game is to use these pieces to turn different animals or everyday objects into abstract shapes; to do so, it will be necessary to put into practice the rotations and symmetries between the pieces until the right combination is found to produce the desired figure. ...

  The word "geometry" comes from the Greek geo , "earth" and metria , "measurement". Geometry is one of the oldest fields of mathematics, it is responsible for studying the shape of individual objects, the relationship between them and their properties, among other things; moreover, over the years, several disciplines such as technical drawing or architecture have been based on this fundamental discipline of mathematics; moreover, geometry complements other areas such as astronomy or physics. After learning a little more about the concept of geometry, have you ever thought about the influence of geometry on art? In the world of art, geometry plays an indispensable role; geometry not only provides structures or shapes but also acts as a visual language through which artists express their emotions and thoughts. Within a work of art, we can see angles, geometric patterns and different positions in the lines and, as we know, this can show different perspecti...

☺ Hello everybody!  First of all, I would like to introduce myself, I am Andrea and I am 20 years old; I have created this blog for the subject of Didactics of Geometry, which belongs to the degree of Primary Education at the University of Malaga. In this blog you can find interesting information about geometry and related topics, about useful applications with geometry, branches of geometry, activities ... that will be part of a learning process about this part of mathematics. I hope that you will find here the importance of geometry in school and in everyday life.