Sensor 12.The Constructive Triangles: Triangular Box
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12.THE CONSTRUCTIVE TRIANGLES: TRIANGULAR BOX


MATERIAL:

A triangular box with:

1. gray, equilateral triangle

2. green, scalene right-angled triangles

3. yellow, isosceles obtuse-angled triangles

4. red, equilateral triangles

PRESENTATION:

1. Bring the triangular box to the rug.

2. Take all triangles out and put the box away.

3. Tell the child that "I am going to build the triangle like this one", and put the gray equilateral triangle on the left bottom side.

4. Take one green triangle and put it on the bottom of the rug.

5. Looking for the same color shape triangle and slowly sliding it into the previous one by matching the black line together.

6. Take the yellow triangles and matching them as an equilateral triangle by set the black lines upward.

7. Take the red triangles and matching them as an equilateral triangle by set the black lines on the middle.

8. Put all triangles back to the box and let the child do it.

POINT OF INTEREST:

The moment in which new triangles are constructed.

CONTROL OF ERROR:

If the newly-constructed figures are not triangles in which the black lines come together.

DIRECT AIM:

Visual discrimination of form and construction of new forms.

INDIRECT AIM:

Preparation for geometry.

AGE:

3 years.

LANGUAGE:

Equilateral triangle, scalene triangle, isosceles triangle.


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