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

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