TOPIC: MANUFACTURING OF SPATIAL AND PLANE FIGURES

Venta Secondary School in Mažeikiai

Guided by: NIJOLĖ JUOZUMIENĖ

Participants: 10^th- and 11^th class pupils and their parents, teachers of mathematics and drawing

Problem: Limited choice of mathematical models and visual aids

Purpose and objectives of the work:

1. Adding new visual aids to the stock of aids in mathematics rooms,
2. Stimulating the pupils’ interest in geometry,
3. Teaching to distinguish between geometrical figures by other methods,
4. Demonstrating and disclosing the working power of pupils,
5. Demonstrating the application of theoretical knowledge to practice,
6. Training of skills of economical approach, when using waste material for manufacturing of aids.

Working groups:

1. Gathering of information
2. Drawing of pictures
3. Preparation of drawings
4. Manufacturing of models
5. Calculation of cost

Sources:

1. Results of a survey of teachers and parents,
2. Material for manufacturing of models (support of parents),
3. Work with a welding apparatus,
4. Material resources (how to earn funds for acquiring aids),
5. Shops and private entities where it is possible to get metal and wood waste.

The pupils learned:

- to draw various figures,

- to measure and construct by drawings,

- to gather information in direct co-operation with teachers,

- to draw up a working plan,

- to evaluate in terms of monies their own work and that of colleagues,

- they obtained basic skills of enterprising.

Presentation form: Exhibition.

The results were exhibited at the Project Exhibition during the Open-door Week in our school.

New concepts and perspective plans: Involving more pupils into the process of manufacturing of visual aids, partially of industrial wastes.