Sixth graders love geometry

Students in the sixth grade enjoy geometry. Together with their mathematics teacher Natasha Milošević, they construct various types of triangles using pencils, rulers, and compasses. In this way, students develop precision in measurement, drawing, and geometric constructions. They also develop positive qualities such as systematicity, persistence, accuracy, tidiness, self-control, and a sense of independent work. Geometry construction has significant educational and developmental significance because it proves the existence of geometric objects whose elements are given, at the level of teaching. The students made maximum efforts to perform each task perfectly and accurately. Of course, a little fun doesn't hurt, because it's essential to show that mathematics isn't scary but rather a beautiful and very interesting science.

Interesting fact

Among all mathematical sciences, geometry has the longest history. It first appeared in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Greece (7th century BCE). The Egyptians developed an inductive method of reasoning; for example, they noticed that a triangle has three angles, so they drew another triangle and noticed the same, and so on until they concluded that all triangles have three angles. They took this as a basic value - an axiom. The difference between Greek and Babylonian geometry is that the Greeks developed theirs by observing the night sky, while the Babylonians developed theirs by observing the land. Even in the 6th century BCE, in Greece, Thales' theorem was known. Thales of Miletus learned from Egyptian priests about their geometric and astronomical conclusions regarding the sum of angles in a triangle, the inscribed circle in a triangle, etc. Pythagoras (6th century BCE) and his students, the Pythagoreans, concluded that the sum of angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. They discovered the first, third, and fourth congruence conditions of triangles and, of course, the famous Pythagorean theorem. In the 4th century BCE, Plato and his student Aristotle began to establish axioms (basic laws of geometry). The most famous school in Athens in the 5th and 6th centuries BCE was Plato's Academy, which had a sign over the entrance saying, "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here." Plato paid a lot of attention to the problem of constructions using a ruler and compass. However, Euclid (3rd century BCE) made the real systematization of (elementary) geometry in his famous books "Elements." Modern geometry in many of its disciplines goes far beyond the geometry of ancient times. The aesthetic needs of people have played an important role, such as the desire to build a more beautiful home, decorate it with paintings from the outside world, etc. Today we see geometry everywhere - modern buildings, interiors of apartments and houses, household appliances, submarines, space stations - everything has some geometric shape. That is why geometric knowledge is professionally significant today for many modern specialties such as designers, constructors, workers, scientists...