Whether you are a student or a teacher, a parent, or a product developer who wants to bring an educational product to the market, this amazing idea can benefit you. Work on this project! This can be used to understand and explain geometrical shapes in mathematics (along with their complex properties). School students can clear difficult math concepts with it.
Through this math project, understanding geometrical shapes can be very easy. If you are a student, you can make your own geometrical board at home.
In this way, you can also help your classmates, friends, or younger brothers and sisters to understand various concepts of geometry. You can even get compliments on it from your teachers in a math exhibition or STEAM contest because it is a working model of mathematics.
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| Working model of Mathematics |
Unlock Math Secrets: How to Make a Geometrical Board at Home
It is also worth noting that making such a nice model is not a difficult task. Necessary materials are usually available in homes.
You will need the things listed below.
A small/large box of good quality
Thermocol
A box of matches
Some colored markers
Paper to cover
Ruler and pencil
A pair of scissors
A few rubber bands (of good quality)
Step-by-Step Guide to Make Hands-On Math tool for Learning Geometry
First you need a box. This box can be of anything. A good quality box of an old phone might be a better idea. You can take a big or small box as per your convenience.
Second, you have to do this. You know that electronic items or any other things like them come with a white thermocol sheet to protect them. That's all you need.
Cut it according to the size of the box. It is better if it is square. That is, the length of all its sides should be exactly equal. If the box is rectangular in shape, then some space can be left on one side of the box to put rubber bands there.
In the next step, you have to very carefully make holes in the thermocol at exactly equal distances. At least you need three rows and three columns. That is, a total of nine holes must be made.
You can also make four holes by marking the horizontal and vertical lines with the help of a pencil and a scale.
Depending on the length of the thermocol sheet and the box, you can make nine, sixteen, twenty-five, or thirty-six holes. Yes! This number should be a perfect square!
You can make this hole with the help of a matchbox. The matchbox will go in very easily.
You can use pins or some longer sticks if you want. The end of the stick/pin should be outside. If your thermocol sheet is thicker, then a long stick can be used instead of a match bag.
Your geometrical board is ready to use. You can create various mathematical shapes on it except some circular shapes, cylinders, cones, etc. You can do a lot on this board.
You can use some rubber bands to show the geometrical shape on this board.
Rubber bands are very cheap and are easily available in the market. Rather, they may be already in your house. You should take them or buy some good-quality rubber bands so that they don't break quickly.
Along with colorful rubber bands, you can also bring a simple good color paper to cover the geometrical board. Cover the thermocol by making holes in this paper too.
You should also decorate the box with colored paper. Make some mathematical shapes with colored markers on the sides. You should also write the name of your project.
The last thing is that you have to fill the empty space in the box and put rubber bands in it because you have to make the shapes with these rubber bands.
You can also follow our method that is clear in the picture. However, to make the project unique and special, you can adopt your own new style.
But, if there is no such space in the box, you can also hang the rubber bands outside.
(Note: This method of making a geometrical board at home is for students and teachers only, but if you are a businessman and if you want to bring a new educational product to the market, you can introduce a product similar to this project, but it should be of better quality and material to help the above-mentioned people in understanding and explaining the subject of mathematics.).
How to Use a Geometrical Board to Understand Mathematical Concepts
After preparing the geometrical board, how do you use it now?
Through the rubber band, you can create different shapes and understand their properties.
Learn a lot about Triangles
You can make a three-cornered triangle shape here.
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| Triangle and its properties |
You can definitely give information about the sides and angles of the triangle in the school.
You can learn as well as teach these things with more interest here. You can see the straight right angle (of 90 degrees) very clearly here.
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| Right angle triangle |
You can also look at the base and hypotenuse.
Apart from this, you can also provide information to the seekers of knowledge regarding the two equal sides of the isosceles triangle. You can also identify the above two types and clarify their difference.
You can also discuss some other issues of the next level with some more effort. For example, you can also confirm here that the vertical bisectors of all the sides of a triangle meet at the same point.
Understanding Properties of Square and Rectangle
Not only things related to the triangle, you can also learn about other shapes. On this geometrical board, you can see four equal sides of a square.
You can give information about the diagonal of a square or rectangle.
While understanding the area and circumference of a square and rectangle, you can keep the shape in front.
You can clarify the difference between the length and width of the rectangle. Therefore, we can say that you can use this one board in many presentations of geometry.
Learning by doing activity to differentiate between geometrical shapes
Through a geometrical board, differences in similar shapes (like squares and rectangles) can be observed.
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| Difference between shapes |
You can also explain the difference between a parallelogram and a rectangle.
By the way, you can explain the difference between a rectangle and a square with the things in front of you, like a room, door, window, whiteboard, table, chair, etc., but it is an admitted fact that children learn more by doing themselves. So it can be used in a 'learning by doing' activity.
After making the shapes with their own hands in no time, the concepts of mathematics will surely be clear.
You can display two different shapes by using a different colored rubber band to differentiate between the shapes.
So, this project can help students and teachers to learn or teach mathematics.
This geometrical board can be used to understand three or more cornered closed shapes of geometry. You can know about triangles, squares, rectangles, parallelograms, even pentagons, hexagons, etc.
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