Geometry Recursilandia

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 stude...

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 ch...

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, express...

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...

Hello again! I hope everything is going great! In this post, I bring you, as you can imagine... A NEW RESOURCE! And I throw this question to you... What better way to work on geometry than seeing, touching and experimenting with the figures as a whole? A resource that allows this way of working are the so-called pattern blocks. The pattern blocks are about 250 pieces of plastic or recycled wood with the following geometric figures:  - Regular hexagons yellow - Red isosceles trapezoids - Blue rhombuses - Green equilateral triangles - Cream-coloured rhombuses - Orange squares  As these pieces are related to each other, it is possible to work on the equivalence of areas or even, fractions. In addition, you can create mosaics, mandalas, geometric drawings following a pattern (which we recommend the book edx education: Pattern Block Cards ). With the help of these patterns, the student will internalise geometrical aspects such as, for example, the side of polygons, angles, the conc...

Welcome to Recursilandia for another day! I hope everything is going well for you and cheer up, there's not much left, internaut teachers! Today I bring you a resource that you are tired of seeing but you have never stopped to think about all its multiple uses, educationally speaking.  Today's resource is called POLYCUBES! And you will say... Poly... what? Well yes, its name is polycubes and it is a set of interlocking pieces that can be used to do many mathematical activities... not only works geometry, works all areas of mathematics but... before we get into this resource I am going to show you what are polycubes! With this resource we can do several activities... For example, free construction so that the students become familiar with this new resource... we have to let their imagination flow! Another way of construction is to give them a template and let them imitate the construction. An example of this activity would be this one:  One of the activities that Recursilandia...

Good evening! Or well... Good evening!!! Or maybe... Good morning! Whatever time it is in your country... Welcome one more day to Recursiland!!! 👋 Today I'm showing you a resource that I'm sure you know about, but maybe you've never stopped to think about using it to work on geometry. Let's see if you can guess it! This resource is a set of some geometric pieces such as the parallelogram, the square, the triangle... Do you know which one it is? You've got it right! Today we are going to talk about the Tangram, whose origin goes back to China, many years ago, as the Tangram is very old.  The basic use of this game is to form different figures with the pieces without overlapping them. There are 7 pieces called "Tans" and they are 5 isosceles triangles (2 large, 2 small and 1 medium), 1 square and 1 parallelogram. Lately, this resource called Tangram is used with some figure models to be able to build them with all the pieces. You can find almost 16,000 figu...

Hello everybody!!! First of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Alba Lorenzo and I am 20 years old. I'm studying a degree in Primary Education and now I'm taking a subject called "Didactics of Geometry". I have created this blog for the teachers who are around here!!! With this blog, I want to show you all the resources about geometry that we can use every day with our students so that they associate the contents to learn about geometry with reality. It will be great fun! Well, my fellow surfers... I'll say goodbye! See you next time 😊