MODELING AS THE WAY OF ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

Changes taking currently place in upbringing and teaching, force teachers to constantly search for newer methods of transmitting knowledge to their students. Young people beginning their studies are brought up in different ways of gaining recognition skills than they were a few years ago. Children play with blocks, building various structures and learning the shapes and features of single blocks, but they must be able to imagine the overall effects in their work. During our geometry classes, we refer to wooden models of solids like pyramids and prisms, so that building models from blocks becomes more natural and less hard. With this in mind, we came up with an idea to prepare a number of models that students could cut from a single piece of paper and then fold it to confront a 2D illustration with the corresponding 3D model. In this paper, assumptions according to the model that we made, as well as solutions and some examples, are presented.