The importance of Geometry

Have you ever asked yourself why the geometry is important for our daily life? I am sure that you have done. In addition, I am sure too that you have wondered about its didactic application. For this reason I will deal with its importance and its didactic application, in order to make pupils aware of its importance.

Firstly, if you take a look of your surroundings you will realize that geometry is everywhere; angles, shapes, lines, line segments, curves and other aspects of it. It creates our environment. For instance, in the daily life is necessary to have the basic geometry knowledge in order to orientate in space.

The school is such as a brilliant place full of geometry shapes, where students can explore it looking for them. In this practical way, students would be aware of our geometrical dimension, taking real examples of their school. Little by little, they would be realizing that the geometric shapes are everywhere.

For this reason, a good didactic application for making students aware of this fact would be to take the students to the playground and by groups do a “geometry shapes hunt” (like a treasure hunt). They will have to look for real stuffs that have a geometrical shape. In this way the students realize the presence of geometric figures in our daily life.