TOY/GAME: Spacial Geometry through ITSPHUN Math Shapes - Making Curriculum Pop2024-03-28T16:50:41Zhttp://mcpopmb.ning.com/forum/topics/toy-game-spacial-geometry-through-itsphun-math-shapes?groupUrl=elementaryteachers&feed=yes&xn_auth=noGreat point from a seasoned e…tag:mcpopmb.ning.com,2013-06-23:2665237:Comment:1392502013-06-23T14:19:41.404ZRyan Goblehttp://mcpopmb.ning.com/profile/RyanGoble
<p>Great point from a seasoned educator - thanks for sharing all your thinking it was interesting to read as a non-math teacher!</p>
<p>Great point from a seasoned educator - thanks for sharing all your thinking it was interesting to read as a non-math teacher!</p> There's a lot of appeal to th…tag:mcpopmb.ning.com,2013-06-22:2665237:Comment:1393892013-06-22T13:37:41.604ZFred Mindlinhttp://mcpopmb.ning.com/profile/fmindlin
<p>There's a lot of appeal to the possibilities here, Ryan -- but I think I'd still do these activities in the old fashioned way: toothpicks for the edges and either gumdrops or soaked whole dried peas for the vertices. For me the visual confusion of all the nobby bits sticking out everywhere spoils a lot of the learning potential of this product. Kids can visualize the geometry more easily with clean lines and a clear one-to-one correspondence between geometric elements and the building…</p>
<p>There's a lot of appeal to the possibilities here, Ryan -- but I think I'd still do these activities in the old fashioned way: toothpicks for the edges and either gumdrops or soaked whole dried peas for the vertices. For me the visual confusion of all the nobby bits sticking out everywhere spoils a lot of the learning potential of this product. Kids can visualize the geometry more easily with clean lines and a clear one-to-one correspondence between geometric elements and the building blocks. With these, it's not readily apparent where the vertices and edges even are...</p>
<p>It takes patience to work with the soaked peas as vertices - they break easily - and it takes self-restraint to work with gum drops. But kids really get it. I've had fourth graders succeed in making a tessellated icosahedron, with tissue paper glued on as the faces. Makes a wonderful Christmas tree top star!</p>