Click here for the Paper Stick Mathematics GTEN workshop video that provides learning activities and suggestions for teaching about 2D and 3D geometry. For primary teaching we lay the foundations for later learning. For secondary teaching we build understanding and skills for lifelong learning.
While you watch try out the activities for yourself. Prepare by making some paper sticks out of scrap paper. Watch this very short video for instructions. The workshop activities include making a metre measuring stick and using it to take measurements so learners can draw some scale drawings. The paper sticks are used to work systematically to find all the rectangles that can be made with a given perimeter and to find factors. By finding all the triangles with the same perimeter learners discover the triangle inequality. Paper sticks are used to make a tetrahedron, octahedron and icosahedron and find some of the symmetries of polyhedra. The workshop concludes with discussion of applications of symmetry groups to crystallography and particle physics.
The Global Teacher Empowerment Network (GTEN) videos provide resources for differentiation and inclusion, with guidance and learning activities that follow a spiral learning pathway from early years to leaving school.
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