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3 PRACTICAL ACTIVITY ABOUT TEACHING ANGLES

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In this entry, I will be focused on explaining some activities which can be very motivating and interesting for students in order to learn the angles. I’m going to take Yeap Ban Har as a reference who proposed the Singapur method in which one of the most purposes is the development of students’ abilities to imagine and think about solutions to a certain situation in order to learn the reason why they made those decisions and how they reached to the solution. Moreover, according to this method, students learn more meaningfully if there is something visual and manipulative.

For this reason, I’m going to share with you three practical activities to do in your mathematics classroom in order to teach angles in an effective and motivating way;
FIRST ONE: USING THE DOOR
This activity is very simple and fun which would reinforce the basic understanding of angles. The only thing that the teacher has to do is using colourful adhesive tapes and a post-it in order to mark the different angles under the classroom door. 
In this way, every time that a learner opens or closes the door could remember the different angles in a simple way.






SECOND ONE: WORKING IN GROUPS
This is a perfect idea to encourage young learners to work in a group cooperatively and reinforce positive relationships between students. The idea is to make four different groups in which each of them will have four tables. In each table, the teacher will fill it with adhesive tape with the purpose of making angles aleatory. Then, each group will have to measure and find as many angles as possible without using a conveyor so it would be a great problem-solving challenge.





THIRD ONE: THE CLOCK

This is an ingenious and innovative idea to learn angles and, at the same time, the time. What they have to do is to create three huge clocks with their corresponding hours. Now, the teacher will divide the classroom into three groups and will command them to make a rectangle angle. 

 The young learners will have to think in order to draw the angle and say to the teacher what time it is.


Finally, I will let you an educative video which explains very well the types of angles and it could be as an introductory part of the lesson in order to let students have an idea what an angle is, its types, etc. 


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