Exploring the World of Geometry with Andrea

 Hello everybody! I would like to welcome you to the last post of this blog from which I hope you have learned new things related to geometry and have found it interesting both for your future as teachers and in everyday life.      In this last post, we will explore how geometry is present in education, as teaching geometry is not only crucial for developing mathematical skills, but also for fostering students' critical thinking, problem solving and creativity. First, we will talk about the importance of geometry in education. At first, we think that learning geometry is only about measuring angles or calculating areas and perimeters; however, the importance of learning geometry goes far beyond that.  The Importance of Geometry in Education      To begin with, geometry helps students to understand and manipulate basic and complex geometric shapes in their minds, which is essential for having a fluent ability in design, engineering or architectur...

      Welcome everyone once again to this blog! In today's post we will address the fascinating connection between the worlds of geometry and sport. I will explain how geometric shapes and rules are not only present in textbooks, but can also be found on the playing fields. Geometry is present in all aspects of sport, from stadium designs to play strategies. On basketball, football and tennis courts we can observe how geometric figures are specifically designed to ensure a balanced and fair game. Furthermore, in sports such as football and basketball, players make use of geometry to organise their movements and strategies, for example, triangulated passes in football and curtain plays in basketball are based on geometric principles. Here is a link to a piece of news from the newspaper "El País", in which they explain how geometry changed the way basketball was played, taking into account the corners of the court and the three-point line. → https://elpais.com/cienci...

 Hello everyone again!,       In today's post we will dive a little deeper into the fascinating world of geometry, exploring the world of the Fibonacci sequence and its surprising relationship with sunflowers. Are you ready to discover how geometry is linked to sunflowers?           To begin with, the Fibonacci sequence is a succession of numbers in which each of them is the sum of the two previous ones, that is to say : 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34... This sequence has a great background that we find in nature, and one of the most remarkable ones, in sunflowers. Below, I insert a short video in which the Fibonacci sequence is explained in a simple and visual way. When we look closely at the centre of a sunflower, we can see a unique arrangement of seeds, we can find the spirals clockwise and counterclockwise, and we discover that these numbers coincide exactly with the Fibonacci sequence. In addition to all this, the arrangement of these...