Webinars SET B - Grades 1-2 - Sunday@5:45pm EST-Webinar 7 Recording

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Video Summary

In the "Masked Kangaroo" webinar focused on 3D shapes, participants expanded their understanding beyond 2D geometry by exploring concepts such as faces, edges, and corners of shapes like cubes. The session began with a review on identifying opposite and symmetrical faces of a cube, which can be applicable in many geometry problems. The four-step method for problem-solving was emphasized: understanding the problem, planning a solution, executing it, and evaluating the outcome.<br /><br />During the webinar, students engaged with exercises ranging from identifying the views of a stack of disks to solving for the number of painted faces in glued cubes. Various methods were suggested for counting the visible faces of cubes, such as verifying by columns or utilizing face-to-face connections to simplify counting.<br /><br />The webinar highlighted the importance of recognizing multiple perspectives when analyzing 3D objects. For example, attendees learned to visualize shapes from different angles and interpret how objects would appear from the top, side, or within nets (unwrapped shapes).<br /><br />The session concluded by acknowledging that 3D shapes can initially pose a challenge to young learners due to their complexity in spatial representation, but with continued practice and utilizing strategies like drawing and mental rotation, students can improve. Links between 2D and 3D shapes were drawn to aid understanding, culminating with a complex problem that reinforced the idea of spatial planning with multiple colored cubes while adhering to constraints.

Keywords

3D shapes

geometry

problem-solving

cubes

spatial representation

symmetrical faces

visualization

mental rotation

nets

spatial planning