Geometry What is Geometry What geometry did you

Geometry

• What is Geometry? • What geometry did you learn in primary school?

What is Geometry • Study of Shapes and their Properties

• Students did the following activity.

Activity 1. 1 • Name these shapes

• How useful is Geometry?

How Useful is Geometry? • Design and Construction of Buildings

How Useful is Geometry? • Navigation

How Useful is Geometry? • Art

How Useful is Geometry? • Measurement

• Students did the following activity.

Activity 1. 2 • Find the length of the perimeters of each of the following shapes

• Higher order activity

Activity 1. 3

Activity 1. 3

• History

The Origins of Geometry • The geometry that we study in school was invented by the ancient Greek mathematicians.

What Did You Learn? • Write down three things that you learned in today’s lesson.

Homework • • Geometry investigates the properties of two dimensional and three dimensional s_____. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is called a g________. Euclid was called the ‘_____ of Geometry’. Euclid is famous for his book, The E______. Name two, 2 -dimensional shapes (i)_______ (ii) ______ Name two, 3 -dimensional shapes (i)_______ (ii) ______ What 2 -dimensional shape has eight sides? ___________

Homework • Use the Internet to: – Find out three things about Euclid – Name two other Greek geometers