How does teach geometry?

The subject of mathematics is one subject that children hate or love but there is not a medium place. Usually, it is a boring subject for students. However, It used to be taught in a traditional way in which the teacher explains the content, the students accept the concept, ask questions that only the teacher can answer and finally the students make a lot of exercises without seeing the objective or the application.

This classic process of learning Mathematics could be one aspect that determines the low motivation of students toward the subject and the problems they have with it.  The way of teaching the subject has a huge influence on how the students perceive the subject. So, it is necessary to revise it and find other resources and strategies to apply, in order to get the curiosity and the interest of the students in order to get significative and productive learning.

First, we have to think about different methodologies and dynamics to draw the attention of the student and get their curiosity. In the application of a huge variety of them, we could get other results.

Methodologies that we can be used are the flipped classroom, creative thinking, or cooperative learning among others. Moreover, the motivation of the students could be determined by the resources and the variety of materials used. For this reason, in geometry lessons, we can use the ITCs and manipulatives materials that let students get experiences with the figures or with the different aspect of the subject.

The following video shows us the experience of a teacher that changed his lessons of geometry with the objective of getting the curiosity and the motivation of the students. In his cases, he explains how through the new technologies, the use of closed examples, experiences and challenging the students, he gets better results and more involvement of students in the subject.