Geometry is one of the important branches of mathematics that deals with different shapes, properties of shapes and their applications in real life. In the initial classes, students start identifying, naming, understanding, and drawing (or constructing) shapes. These days, geometry has become more complicated and advanced as learners also become more excellent. The central part of the geometry involves understanding the properties and attributes of shapes and how different shapes relate to each other. Different types of activities can help the students comprehend these concepts, theories and make them prepared for coming geometry education.
Students will be introduced with the basic geometric shapes in their primary classes. In the beginning, students may find it challenging to draw the shapes using pencils precisely as they think. The main difficulty is not being able to draw the shapes as they are trying to make because of a lack of practice. While learning the way of drawing shapes, students need to recognize the shapes that can be drawn without having to carry out a ruler or a protractor. For example, the circle can quickly be drawn by drag and drop the protractor directly in the storyboard creator to present examples and illustrate their understanding.
In the classroom, students will be taught with the basic geometric shapes at first, such as point, lines, simple closed figures. Later they will be introduced with the terminology related to these shapes such as angles, degrees, signs, vertices, sides, diagonals, etc. These are the basics for geometry, and these will be used throughout the concept when dealing with different shapes, including simple and complex. In high school grades, students will learn how to draw lines using geometric tools without a ruler. These constructions include lines, line segments, rays, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, intersecting lines. Along with these lines, they will also learn how to draw circles and quadrilaterals by considering the given radius, sides and angles, respectively.
Construction of geometric shapes are not limited to simple shapes but also included the construction of circumcircles, incircles of triangles. In class 10 maths, students can learn how to construct similar triangles using scale factor and construction of tangents. These are significant constructions for the examination as there will be less number of questions in the chapter and are easy to remember with respect to the construction steps. Apart from the constructions, students will also learn different shapes and their properties, formulas related to shapes at varying levels of education. In this way, students are introduced to geometry in
However, all these constructions are simple and easy to understand if we correlate with the real life examples. That means, the ring is an example for the shape circle, the rectangle is an example of the shape of a paper sheet, ruler is used to measure lengths such as threads, tables, materials, and so on. Application of knowledge to real life examples will help the students in remembering the concept for a longer time. Geometry is one concept which has many applications in real life. Hence, application of concepts to the real scenarios is the best way of learning geometry efficiently.
