Third class

Hello everyone!

📽️ In today's post, we will comment on the first part of the video: Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land. This first part would be between the minutes 0:50 - 2:50. As we talked about in the previous post, in this part of the video we find Donald entering in Mathmagic Land, where he is found numbers, square roots, the PI number, flat figures... and the narrator, who is going to be in charge of show us this wonderful land.

As we said in the previous post, although we found enough content related to the topic we want to work on, as an introduction is being made to the topic, in class we will do the same with the students, thus making an introduction to Geometry. Therefore, the type of game or activities that we do for this part must be motivating for the students and that they transmit curiosity to know the contents that will come next in the subject.

Since Donald arrives at Mathmagic Land, we will tell the students that we will also enter this Magic Land doing activities with a "magic touch". In this class we will do 2 activities to introduce the geometry to the students, one related to the video and the other related to Art. In addition, we will do a "magical" experiment to finish the class, with which the students will be fascinated and motivated for later classes.

📝 ACTIVITY 1: this activity will be carried out right after finishing watching the first part of the video. We will ask the students draw or write on a sheet the contents that they have seen in this first part and, therefore, they have transmitted curiosity to them. Thus, we are making students think about what they have seen, what they understand, what they do not understand...

📝 ACTIVITY 2: "La Alhambra de Granada es la fuente de inspiración más fértil de todas las que he bebido" M. C. Escher. We will introduce students to the world of this artist by showing them different artistic works and commenting with them what they can see related to geometry.

With this type of "magical" artistic works we will make the students think about what is happening in the artistic work and what contents related to the geometry that they have just seen in the video, can be found in the artistic works.

⚗️ EXPERIMENT: in the following experiment that we will call "Magical Phenomena" students will be fascinated with the magic that we can find in our daily life, as well as geometry is anywhere, even in food. On this page we find the procedure of the experiment, as well as an explanatory video and the explanation of it.

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

Marta