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7 C Constructive Triangles 3. Triangular Box

The document outlines a presentation and construction activity using various triangles to teach children about shapes and geometry. It includes materials needed, step-by-step instructions for assembling the triangles, and educational purposes for the activity. The target age group for this activity is children aged 4 to 5 years.

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7 C Constructive Triangles 3. Triangular Box

The document outlines a presentation and construction activity using various triangles to teach children about shapes and geometry. It includes materials needed, step-by-step instructions for assembling the triangles, and educational purposes for the activity. The target age group for this activity is children aged 4 to 5 years.

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Triangular Box

Materials
- 1 large gray equilateral triangle without black lines.
- 2 green right-angled scalene triangles. Each is a half of the gray triangle, with the
black lines along the equal sides.
- 3 yellow obtuse-angled isosceles triangles. Each is a third of the gray triangle
with the black lines along the equal sides.
- 4 red equilateral triangles. Each is one fourth of the gray triangle with black lines
on: one triangle along all the sides, three triangles along one side only.

Presentation

Introduction
Invite the child by telling him you have something to show him. Bring him over to
the correct shelves. Show the child how to carry the box. Have him carry it to the
table and have him place it near the top right corner of the table. Have the child sit
to your left, and then you sit down.
Constructing

- Remove the lid of the box using both hands.


- Place the lid directly in front of the box and palace the box on top of the lid.
- Take out all of the different triangles and lay them randomly to the left of the
box.
- Replace the lid on the box.
- Choose the one gray triangle and using both hands to hold the triangle around the
edges, place the gray triangle near you but a little to the side.
- Pick up one of the green triangles and place it in front of you with the black line
vertical.
- Pick up the other green triangle and place it so it makes one triangle with the
other green piece.
- Pick up the gray triangle and gently place it on top of the green triangle to show
that these two green triangles make the same shape and size as the gray triangle.
- Remove and replace the gray triangle slightly off to the side and gently move the
green triangles, as a whole, up to the top left corner of the table.
- Create one large triangle using the three yellow triangles in a similar fashion by
following the black lines.
- Once put together, check with the gray triangle as you had done for the green
triangles.
- Gently slide the yellow triangle to the top of the table to the right of the green
triangles.
- Create one large triangle in a similar fashion for the red triangles, always using
the black lines as your guide.
- Check with the gray triangle.
- Gently slide the red triangles up next to the yellow triangles.
- Mix up the triangles and allow the child to make the large triangle out of the
smaller triangles.
- Once the child has created all three triangles out of the other triangles, show the
child how to replace them back into the box in the correct order: the red triangles,
then the yellow triangles, then the green triangles, and then the gray triangle.
Language
Later on, give the terms of side, base, vertex, etc….
Purpose
Direct
To realize that the equilateral triangle can be subdivided into other types of
triangles.
Indirect
Preparation for geometry: to show that all plane figures constructed with straight
lines are composed of triangles.
Preparation for understanding the concept of equivalence and its application for
finding the area of plane figures.

Control of Error
The black lines and the gray triangle.

Age
4 to 5 years

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