Building with Polydron

 

    Hello everyone! Today I am going to tell you about Polydron, a very enjoyable interactive tool with which we can build our own geometric figures while we play and it will also help us to continue discovering more aspects of geometry.

Polydron is a construction set with plastic pieces that can be connected together. Each piece has a different shape, from triangles to pentagons. With this set, we can build flat geometric figures and also three-dimensional structures such as cubes, i.e. it is a three-dimensional puzzle of which we can create the pieces!

Polydron can turn a geometry lesson into a hands-on, creative adventure for students. First of all, students being able to see and touch shapes helps them understand more complex concepts such as volume or the area of a figure. In addition, by building shapes with this resource, students learn spatial skills as they learn to understand how to see shapes from different perspectives, and this type of skill allows them to improve in the areas of drawing or graphic design.

In addition to all this, thanks to polydron, children learn while they play, as geometry becomes a game; they learn to follow instructions and, on the contrary, they also develop creativity by being able to invent their own constructions without limits.

As future teachers, it would be very interesting for us to include polydron in the classroom to teach geometry concepts so that students can explore these new terms by manipulating geometric pieces. To begin with, we could explore the basic pieces, such as triangles, to see what kind of shapes we can create with them. Next, to make the game more challenging, we could suggest that students create a three-dimensional figure such as a pyramid, even working in groups. And finally, we can give the students the freedom to use what they have learnt to create a geometrical figure using their own ideas, thus practising the concepts of vertices, edges and faces.

In conclusion, Polydron can turn the classroom into a very memorable and meaningful experience for students because by experimenting with their own hands, they learn so much more. I hope it helps your students!

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I hope you liked the polydron tool!

See you next time!