16 January 2007

Pre-session : Why teach geometry?

Why should geometry be taught?

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Students are able to relate angles and lengths to closed figures.

Anonymous said...

Angles are everywhere. Patterns and shapes engulf our social life. The study of geometry enriches one's perspective of living. In fact, without geometry life is really imbalanced.

Anonymous said...

Students will be able to appreciate inventions/creations in life.

Anonymous said...

students can appreciate that the learning of Math is not restricted only to numbers and there is beauty in patterns and shapes.

Anonymous said...

To learn about spatial concept and visualisations in two or three dimensions.

Anonymous said...

Students will better appreciate the shapes in our life and understand how certain shapes are formed in that particular way.

Anonymous said...

Because its in the syllabus

Anonymous said...

To appreciate the properties of shapes and objects...

Anonymous said...

Because geometry is one of the main parts in the syllabus, and it is a big topic.

Anonymous said...

• Visual > more engaging
• Student-centred > discovery
• Exploring problems
• See/explore > more convinced
• Proving & showing non-examples
• Able to make connections
• Enhanced learning > trigo (eg. Sine Curves) < animation
• Enhance through experiential learning
• Students-equipped with skills > apply in tasks
• GSP > explore more possibilities

Anonymous said...

Because geometrical properties are very interesting to discover as there are many kinds: euclidean, hyperbolic, spherical, projective and so on.