STRUCTURAL TRIANGLES

STRUCTURAL TRIANGLES - MONTESSORI

When children get used to geometric figures, the fact to create figures based on other figures is stimulating for our pupils and structural triangles are perfect for that! This is another material in Montessori and its function is to demonstrate that all the geometric plane figures can be building based on triangles.

This material is presented with five boxes with different shapes that contain combinations of triangles of different sizes, shapes and colors. Apart from create figures they are learning about the equivalences and its application to found the area.

The objective is to form the figure inside the boxes and join the pieces of triangles to create the shape of the box. Besides, children can choose as the objective of the activity, to form different figures with the ones that are inside the box. In this case, we will obtain the following figures that appear in Figure 2. All the figures use the colors as a clue to form the regular figures and they also have lines in order to visualize the triangles in the figure. In contrast, there is a rectangular box with blue pieces that it is used in an advanced level. In this way, to do the activity they will not have any clue to solve it.

Figure 1

Figure 2

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