Geometry and Spatial Sense

Ahhh...geometry. There is so much potential in geometry, but so much fear attached with how to teach it. In a recent survey that 160 occasional teachers and long term occasional teachers completed, geometry and spatial sense came out as the strand that teachers felt the least amount of comfort teaching. Why? I'm not exactly sure, but feel free to comment to explain why a large number of teachers feel this way about geometry.

Here are the results: two ways to show the same thing!







Here are some great resources available online.

A Guide to Effective Instruction...Geometry and Spatial Sense grades 1to 3

Linking Fraction Strands to Geometry and Spatial Sense

A Guide to Effective Instruction...Geometry and Spatial Sense grades 4 to 6

Interactive Geometric Shapes

There are some great interactive tools to use to show students geometric shapes, nets, etc. This is one that I recently stumbled across: Interactive Geometric Shapes

Here is a great Minds-On activity to get your students to make real-world connections to graphing from Ted Ed. I highly recommend taking a look, it also provides some questions and lesson plans. Here is the link to the entire site: TED Education