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Key Issues in Teaching Shape and Space To Children: Week 10

The document provides guidance for teaching key concepts of shape and space to children. It recommends giving children plenty of hands-on experiences with shapes to make abstract concepts more concrete. Teachers should accompany practical activities with discussions that reinforce the correct names and properties of shapes. Creating a glossary of shape terms and using floor turtles or Logo software can help children better understand angles and symmetry.

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Key Issues in Teaching Shape and Space To Children: Week 10

The document provides guidance for teaching key concepts of shape and space to children. It recommends giving children plenty of hands-on experiences with shapes to make abstract concepts more concrete. Teachers should accompany practical activities with discussions that reinforce the correct names and properties of shapes. Creating a glossary of shape terms and using floor turtles or Logo software can help children better understand angles and symmetry.

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Key issues in teaching shape and space to children

Useful points to remember when teaching shape and space

o Children

need

plenty

of

practical

experiences: many of the concepts are abstract and need personalizing. Task relating to the classroon o Any practical work should be accompanied by discussion of properties and correct names of shapes. o Children often feel confused about the names of shapes and need reinforcement. o Children often feel confused about names and properties of shapes. o Ask children to create their own glossary of the following words and illustrate them: Angle, acute, right, obtuse angle. o The useful of Floor Turtle and Logo helps children to understand the concept of angle. o Making patterns involving symmetry and tessellation are useful experience.

Week 10

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