Geometry Recursilandia

The day of our goodbye has come! Before we say goodbye, I would like to explain to you the importance and insistence of teaching materials in the field of education and more specifically in geometry.  Through the different manipulative resources that I have been showing you, the child would be able to discover the relationships between the figures and the geometric rules that derive from them. Moreover, this type of material favours practical exercise, experimentation, motivation, creativity, critical spirit and cooperative learning, always favouring different learning rhythms. At all times, pupils are favoured, facilitating the principle of inclusion and acceptance of the differences of all pupils. Furthermore, the manipulative resources allow all types of pupils to be integrated into the primary classroom, as long as the teacher adjusts to their pace and learning style. This is why Recursilandia is strongly committed to these types of materials because, as we have seen, they favour p

Hello mates!!! I'm a bit sad... This is the last Recursilandia post in which I recommend something to you😔, it's been such a nice few weeks! I hope that Recursilandia has found its way into the heart of the teachers you have...  Today, I am not bringing you a resource to work with students as such, I am bringing you a "manual". This manual I am talking about is a book written by the argentinian Adriana González entitled " Yo tengo tres lados, y vos?: Las figuras geométricas en la Escuela Primaria " (I have three sides, and you?: Geometric figures in Primary School) from the publishing house HOMO SAPIENS EDICIONES.  This book proposes didactic learning sequences that allow students to achieve solid and meaningful constructions. This book uses the Project-Based Methodology, always taking into account the contents to be learnt by the children and also the role that the teacher has to play in the teaching of geometric figures.  Throughout the chapters, topics s

Hello teachers!!! I hope everything is going great in your lives! Today I bring you a little short post as I would like you to investigate in a deeper way.  Today I bring you the program called Geogebra, this program is a free software for the education of mathematics at all levels working arithmetic, geometry, algebra and calculations.  I could recommend you many programs but Geogebra stands out from the rest because it presents a wide range of possibilities without losing any kind of efficiency, always keeping the simplicity of learning. One of the things I really like is that it replaces the traditional constructions that students usually do with pencil, ruler and compass, making these constructions more dynamic and creating a great interaction between them.  Using this programme in the classroom fulfils the objective of making the teacher see that there are always different ways of working on geometry in the classroom with a myriad of ICT tools and also, for the students, it fulfil

WELCOME TO RECURSILANDIA FOR ANOTHER DAY! Today I bring you something a bit different as I bring you a material of a methodology, do you know the Montessori methodology? I'm sure you do, so here we go! The Montessori geometric set includes different sets of pieces to introduce students to the geometric plane shapes but still, it has many uses, I leave here below the picture so that you can better understand what I mean.  One of the uses of this set is to work on secant and parallel lines from a very young age. And how? Well, with a story! This story is about a doll (in this case, "Pumpkin"), who goes in search of another doll (in this case " Pink meringue). If the two of them follow the same path along two parallel lines, the two dolls will never meet!  However, if we place the straight lines as secant lines, the two dolls will meet and will be able to hug each other!  Did you like this idea? It is very easy to do and as you can see, it is very simple to do dynamic a

Hello Internet teachers! I missed you😞, did you miss me too? Today I bring you as you already know a new resource to use in your classrooms to work on geometry. As you already know, students love to play at building things so why don't we combine their likes with geometry? In order to bring these likes  together I bring you this resource called Magna-Tiles. It is a resource that can be used from 3 years old to 10 years old, the whole primary and infant stage! This game is about translucent and magnetized pieces that allow you to make all kinds of construction in an easy way because the pieces are attracted to each other by magnetism.  With this game, pupils develop logical thinking and spatial vision, always encouraging creativity. In addition to working on their own geometry, they can also work on manual precision and concentration.  In terms of uses, it could be used to introduce the revolution bodies and to see in a more experimental and realistic way the sides and characterist

Good morning internauts teachers! Today I bring you a very special resource that maybe you don't know in depth or you have seen but you have never stopped to think about the multiple educational uses for geometry! This resource is called Hama Beads... and you will say, but what is it??? They are small pieces of plastic that can form figures of all kinds. They have many sizes and colors. Although the use of Hama Beads has been famous recently, they were created half a century ago. Its creator was Malte Haaning, a businessman familiar with plastic who, due to a demand received, began to manufacture the Hama Beads in 1971. In 1984 the Hama brand was registered as a trademark and from that moment on, it has been one of the favorite hobbies of boys and girls in their spare time. In addition, there are several types HAMA MAXI  HAMA MIDI HAMA MINI With this resource we work on the development of fine motor skills, mathematical skills, geometric figure recognition, creativity, expressivene

Hello everyone!!! We are at the halfway point of Recursilandia! Today I bring you a didactic proposal as always... to work on geometry! In addition, with this resource you can introduce geometric concepts and at the same time, review them.  I am talking about... GEOPLANE! This resource is made of wood or other resistant material and it is very old, it dates back to 1960 and it was created by the Egyptian mathematician Caleb Gattegno, because this mathematician was looking for a new method to teach geometry in a more manipulative way... Caleb would have been a perfect fan of Recursilandia! Before going into the types of geoplanes, I'll show you a picture so you know what they are about. Moreover, there is not only one geoplan... There are several! For you to understand it better and in a more visual way, I leave here a video of our partner Malena. What use can we give to the geoplane? For example, we can form different geometric figures using the rubber bands and following a templat