Learning Opportunities for Children in Geometry

Pre-Class Assignment (3): Learning Opportunities for Children in Geometry and Spatial Sense Classes Name Institutional Affiliation Classes on geometry elevates children’s ability to prescribe to shapes, sizes, positions, directions, and movements. This knowledge evokes their spatial sense in that their awareness to how these aspects relate to people and objects around them is enhanced. Since children have young minds, it is only necessary that appropriate strategies are used to enhance their knowledge on geometry and spatial sense. Use of geoboards is one of the kindergarten activities that advances their relative knowledge to the various shapes. Geoboards are physical instruments that can be thought of manipulative tools that arouses the discovery among children about the concepts of perimeter, area, measurement, angles, and shapes. These tools introduce the students to the fundamentals of the formal lesson as they have extended periods of play...