Sixth class

Hello everyone!

📽️ In today's post we will comment on the fourth part of the video: Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land. This part would be between the minutes 13:46 - 22:09. As we already talked in his respective post, in this part of the video Donald will discover that mathematics is not only addition and subtraction, we can also find mathematics in games. In this part of the video a literary author is quoted: Lewis Carroll, who wrote the book "Through the Looking Glass". As we can see, it is very easy to work different transversal contents from the visualization of this video, making the students curious about what the book is about and how it relates to mathematics, so we also encourage reading.


In this fragment of the video we find the following content related to the theme of geometry: chess, sports, geometric figures and angles. Returning to the above, we can unite these contents that we find in this passage with the subject of physical education, since it is about sports.

Before moving on to the activities, it would be convenient for us to read the multiple benefits that playing chess has in elementary classes. In the following pages you can find this information (1, 2, 3).


📝 ACTIVITY 1: for the first activity we will work with a chess board and we will ask the students "the horse problem". In this "problem" students have to move the horse by the chessboard and touch all the boxes without repeating any. Thus we could introduce the terms of translation, symmetry, movements of figures in a plane... This activity allows to develop many skills in students, in addition to the transversal contents that can be worked within it. Solution and explanation.

📝 ACTIVITY 2: for the next activity we will work on the contents of the area, perimeter, prisms... For this we will use all the play fields that the students know and we will make problems to calculate the aforementioned contents. With the game balls of the same we will do the same, as explained on this web page we can see how the soccer ball is full of geometry.

📝 ACTIVITY 3: in this activity we will work with the hopscotch which offers us endless possibilities, since it allows us to carry out a large number of activities while reviewing or learning new contents such as fractions, multiplications, plane figures, areas, perimeters... As in the previous examples you can adapt the hopscotch and write inside the squares of it what we want the students to answer, for example, geometric figures can be drawn and the students have to say the area and volume of the figure.

I hope you stay and help us in this exciting trip through Mathmagic Land!

Marta