sábado, 9 de junio de 2018

A geometric song

Looking in YouTube I have found this video about a teacher who creates a song to teach the straights and angles. I think it's a very good idea because it is very difficult for children to forget what each kind of angle is. It's much easier to memorize.




Benefits of learning by singing:

- Learning by singing reinforces memory. Do you remember what learning the multiplication table with a song turned out to be more enjoyable? We must take advantage of the fact that some linguistic structures are fixed more easily in our memory if they are accompanied by the rhythm of music. In the same way, it is a good idea to learn the names of the rivers through the songs and look for rhythms between some words and others.

- Benefits for the artistic expression of the little ones. Many times, children make drawings based on a children's song. For example, the popular song "I have a doll" can make children's imagination fly and create drawings that decorate their class or their room.

- Help to organize and better coordinate the movement of children. When they clap their hands or a song is danced, the child works the rhythm together. If a musical instrument is used, the touch is being enhanced since each of them is different and requires different ways to handle it. Do not leave the same feeling in the hands a triangle, a flute or a tambourine.

Music excites us. Thanks to the lyrics of a song, we can get excited or improve our mood. Music therapy works a lot on this aspect. It's amazing how music can help us channel our emotions.


- Singing while learning facilitates social relationships between children. The laughter that occurs when children sing a song together helps them feel more united and have good times together. On many occasions, the children have to work together a song, prepare the stanzas, explain to each other how they can sing it ... it helps them, in short, to create bonds of union between them, and in a very funny way.

viernes, 1 de junio de 2018

Why geometry in primary education?

First of all, we must reflect on the reasons for teaching geometry. Some teachers are based on the areas and volumes of bodies, for example. The teacher must be clear about why, and that will make more accurate decisions. 

One reason that all teachers have to take into account is that it is in our immediate environment, just look at it. In addition, it is used in everyday language: the street parallel to that, the spiral staircase. It also serves to study other topics in the mathematics, for example, a geometric model of the multiplication of numbers or algebraic expressions is the calculation of the area of the rectangle. Finally, it allows the student to develop his/her perception in space, his/her capacity for visualization and abstraction, his/her ability to elaborate conjectures about the geometric relationships in one figure or between several and his/her ability to argue when trying to validate the conjectures he makes.

In the next video we can see other reasons: