The Sims game

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Today I show you a very common and known game, as it is the Sims game.

Without realizing it, in this game are included many geometric aspects, because it is based on it.

It should be noted that when building a house in that game, on the ground appears a grid with which you will guide to create the walls of this, as well as know how much it measures and what things you can fit in any room.

Also during the game appears different geometric figures as for example that which is located abge the head of the doll, which is a ortoedro:

With this game, the students could learn the scales, because the teacher could warn them that each square that appears in the ground would correspond to 100 centimeters (scale 1:100), as well as to calculate perimeters and real areas with the game.

In addition, students will later be able to check the results in 3D, thus increasing their motivation.

This activity could be carried out in class, adapting it for example to that the students should make a plane previously by hand on a paper.

The downside of this is that gambling costos a lot of money.

The seven tiles game

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Today I bring you another game called "The seven tiles" and consists of a puzzle whose pieces as it is intuited, are seven and form among them three squares:

With these pieces, you can do a series of activities related to the areas of the polygons.

One of the games consists of figuring out the area of each of the shapes to get the area of the big square.

It is a good way to see the students who decomposing the figures can find the area of those older figures or that can be complex.

Deck of cards of quadrilaterals

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Today I bring you a resource to work in geometry lessons, which consists of a deck of 64 card of quadrilaterals. In these letters appear the most known quadrilaterals, which are the next:
- Square
- Parallelogram
- Rectangle
- Trapeze
- Rhombus
- Kite
In the rest, some properties of these quadrilaterals appear.

With them, students will play in groups of four players maximum to a style of "chinchón" in which each will have 8 cards and there are a lot of cards in the center and next to it, a card face up (which is the dismiss pile. The pupil, in his turn, will have the opportunity either to take a letter of the heap or to catch the one that is face up, discarding later a card of his deck, having always in this eight cards.

The purpose of this game is to get several families with the cards.

With this game, students will be able to reinforce what they learned about these types of quadrilaterals, as well as some of their properties, thus obtaining a better classification of these.

You can see the deck of cards in the next link:
https://anagarciaazcarate.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/barajafinal.pdf

Traffic signs

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Today I will talk about the relation between the traffic signs form and geometry, because these have different geometrical forms. Between them, we can find triangles, squares, rectangles, circles... having each of them a different meaning. 

But there are specially two traffic signs, which possess a different form to the others and make them easy to recognize. These are the "ceda el paso" and "STOP" signs. Both signs are collected within the priority signs and are considered one of the most important and essential, therefore the need to recognize in a fast and simple way. 

Specifically,  the "STOP" sign, a few centuries ago in USA possessed a different way: it was in the form of square, small and white. Later, with the appearance of several more traffic signs, the need to modify this sign arose. It was when it was decided to use the octogonal form with its name placed in the center. 

But, why this form? The reason is that this form is easy to recognize independently of the climatic condition there is. 

In addition, it can be recognized from behind, being able to know to the perfection that those who must stop are the rest of drivers, that is to say, that you have priority. 

The same goes for the "ceda el paso" sign, as it is the only inverted triangle-shaped sign.

Symmetry in beauty

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Today I will talk about something that called my attention, which is the directed relation between beauty and geometry. This is because, people who are more attractive or that call more attention are those that has a symmetric face. In an involuntary way, it is prettier as we can see in several buildings or some parts of the nature.

For this, symmetry makes beauty.

In the 70th, Stephen Marquardt used the faces of famous ones with higher canons of beauty for example Marilyn Monroe, and took the measures to make a mask with the exact measurements of facial beauty. This collects the ideal distances between the different parts of the face:

The people whose face coincides with the measures of this mask are considered to be the most beautiful women and men in the world.

video about geometrical forms

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Today I will show you a video which you can use when you are in class with your students. From my point of view, I think this video is useful for students from the first cycle of Primary Education because, as you can see in the BOJA, they are starting knowing what are the principal plane and spatial forms:
"4.1. Formas planas y espaciales: círculo, cuadrado, rectángulo, cubo y esfera. Sus elementos."

If you analyse the video, you can observe some details that make the video an excellent resource for your children.

You can observe:
- Too much examples in each of the forms that you can see in the real life, as balls, trees, traffic signs, etc.
- The person who is explaining talks slowly, so students can adquire better the figures and the connection with some objects.
- At the end of the video, it appears a summary of all the figures which they saw during it.
- The video introduces some forms as a heart or a star, so the students can see that are forms too.

Here, you can see the video:

Geometrical sheets

Hello again!

Here you can find most of sheets to use in class to improve the geometrical knowledge. It is good because you can find sheets to all the courses and with good level.

You can find the sheets here.

Las ecuaciones son sólo la parte aburrida de la matemática. Trato de ver las cosas en términos de geometría. (Stephen Hawking)