Buildings from blocks

Authors

  • Oldřich Odvárko Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
  • Jarmila Robová Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague

Abstract

The article deals with the development of pupils’ geometric imagination at lower secondary schools with the support of modelling buildings. Pupils create the cubes from blocks and the surfaces of these cubes are painted as a whole. Then pupils determine the number of blocks with the various given numbers of coloured faces. From concrete examples of cubes the article moves onto more general task; pupils solve the same task for a cube composed of n3 blocks, nN. In the next part of the article tasks to model buildings from blocks are given, pupils learn to sketch them and compute their surface.

Published

2015-02-27

How to Cite

Odvárko, O., & Robová, J. (2015). Buildings from blocks. MATHEMATICS–PHYSICS–INFORMATICS, 24(2), 81–87. Retrieved from https://mfi.upol.cz/index.php/mfi/article/view/190

Issue

Section

Mathematics