Experiences

Structures on the grass

Nina B.

Poland

Primary school

Maths

Teaching in class

Success

One of the last math lessons - we had in 6th grade was a lesson during which we built regular polygons in the schoolyard.
We practiced previously in the computer lab and teacher said, 'you need to know structures by heart, because you will be doing it without hints and on the grass". Nobody knew what was going on, and the structures were not easy.
When we walked onto the grass we received flour, twine and nails (30 cm long) from our teacher. The beginning was terrible. Teacher walked from one group to another and helped to make the first regular pentagon, because no one could understand and create a circle without a calipers. But later it somehow went better. We were tired, but constructions on the grass looked great, and I remember, and I now can make the construction of a regular polygon on the grass.