Development of understanding the concepts of area and perimeter.

Abstract

Area and perimeter belong to the fundamental concepts of primary school geometry. The poster is devoted to tasks and task cascades aimed at the development of pupils' experience with pre concepts of area and perimeter both for pupils and their teachers.

The tasks come from three different manipulative learning environments: wooden sticks, tiling and paper folding. It presumes that the tasks are posed to a class in schema oriented educational approach.

This approach is briefly described.

Keywords

• pre-concepts
• area
• perimeter
• learning environment
• wooden sticks
• paper folding
• tiling
• chema-oriented strategy