Mathematical fairy tales about geometric figures help educators and primary school teachers to form a cognitive interest in children for the “Queen of Sciences”. The assimilation of the complex terms of exact science requires certain knowledge of a figurative, abstract nature. Such a didactic device, like mathematical tales about geometric shapes, makes it possible to combine the specifics of numbers and laws.
The essence of the concept
Kids learn the language of numbers in the form of images much faster. Mathematical tales about geometric shapes are fairy tales that introduce children to the world of mathematical concepts. Unusual travels of numbers contribute to the development of logical thinking in preschoolers. Kids, being involved in an unusual task, acquire certain skills:
- establishment of causal relationships;
- acquisition of logical thinking skills;
- argumentation of one’s own position.
The heroes of stories can be geometric figures, numbers, fairy-tale characters involved in mathematical calculations.
Mathematical tales about geometric shapes - a way to activate mental operations: analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison. All these techniques are actively used in kindergartens and elementary schools.
Goals and objectives of the method
The project "Mathematical Tales" involves the use of digital and geometric stories aimed at the formation in children of initial ideas about geometry. For example, you can tell children the story of three brothers: the Circle, Square, Triangle.
In the middle group of kindergarten, it is supposed to work with certain fairy-tale characters, which are based on mathematical terms and quantities. For example, the project “Mathematical Fairy Tales” can be created on the basis of standard measures, including people in it: Meter and Centimeter.
For the children of the senior group of the preschool institution, you can prepare a fabulous performance in which the main characters will have to perform elementary actions: subtraction, addition. The guys will be happy to go to such an activity. The geometrical figures that came to life in the skillful hands of the teacher will become real friends for preschoolers and will help children master complex science.
Classification
When selecting fabulous stories, the teacher must take into account the age and individual characteristics of preschoolers.
For example, there are significant differences in the fabulous mathematical stories offered to preschoolers and schoolchildren. The differences are in the function of the character. If babies Baba Yaga or Kolobok study the basics of geometry with children, then in history for schoolchildren they perform only an auxiliary function.
Different types of geometric shapes - a plot for a puppet show, and children can do the “voicing” of fairy-tale characters.
Tales can be short-term, helping to work out specific computational actions.
"Swan geese"
Lived and lived grandfather and woman. They had a son and a daughter. They somehow left for work, and the daughters were instructed to follow the brother. As soon as the parents left their home, the girl forgot about the order, put her brother in the sun, and she ran away to play with her friends. Returning, she did not find the brother, he was carried away by geese-swans. Alena cried, and then ran to look for the baby. On the way she met a stove, which promised to show the way in response to a correctly solved puzzle about pies.
Alenka ran along the path, an apple tree met on her way.
In order for her to show her the path to the swan geese, the girl had to find circles among the figures (the guys help make the right choice).
Apple tree said that brother Ivanushka lives in the hut of Baba Yaga. A girl entered the hut and said: "Hello, grandmother Yaga. Please give me my little brother. ”
Yaga asked to put things in order in the hut, arranging things according to the following signs:
- by name: cups, plates, balls, mugs;
- to size;
- by color;
- in form.
Alena, with the help of schoolchildren, quickly solves the problem of Yagi and returns home with her brother.
The Tale of the Circle
An interesting science is mathematics. Geometric figures can be “revived”, making them the main characters of an amazing plot. Lived and Live Direct and Line. I somehow wanted to cut a circle. He says Direct: “Honey, bake me a circle!” She replies: “Well, how can I bake it for you if I don’t have flour”.
“You have so many points that you can scrape together a circle,” replied Slicer and went to bed.
The direct burned, burned, and scratched the points on the circumference, baked it, she went to rest herself. The circle jumped from the window, ran deep into Geometry. She rolled, and on the way met Trapeze. She says: "The circle, I'll eat you now!"
"Do not eat me, Trapeze, because I will come in handy for you: if the sums of your two opposite sides are the same, I can fit into you."
The trapezoid checked its sides, but they did not fit a similar property, so it did not “eat” the Circle. She rolled further, saw the Rectangle on the road. He says: "The circle, I'll eat you now!" The circle answers him: “Listen to my song, do not rush. I left the Direct, from the Trapeze I ran away from you, Rectangle, I will run away. ”
The last on the way was the Triangle. While the Circle was about to sing a song for him, he swallowed it. So she became a circle inscribed in a triangle.
Detective story about the bisector
There was a Corner along the road, and the Bisector, who divided it in half and ran away, ran past him. The divided Corner was upset and turned to the police. Police Chief Kvadrat and Sergeant Rhombus listened to Citizen Ugla, after which they declared Bisectrix a particularly dangerous criminal. By evening, the city learned about the search for the bisector, but no one could identify it among the many other rays living in Geometry.
The Altitude also lived in this city, which, due to its growth, could see all the inhabitants of Geometry. She was able to describe the signs of the criminal to the police. The verbal portrait of the Bisector looked like this: "The little rat that jumps along the Corners divides them exactly in half." Thanks to the vigilance of the Altitude, the criminal was quickly discovered, but they decided to have mercy on her.
Mathematical tales help teachers in their work, stimulate the activities of children.