Geogebra Task

Geometry in the Real World

The following activity has been developed to to help students understanding of 2  dimensional shapes and their properties.  Students are asked to apply what they have learnt within the class to a real world scenario, landscaping a garden.  The students have to follow a set requirements that the client has requested.  Once the students have complete their tasks they will have to present their completed plan to the class and a willing local landscaper.  The landscaper can address the class before the presentation and talk about what maths he uses on a daily basis and what tools he uses to create his geometric shapes.

Before the students can undertake this activity they will have to have lessons on GeoGebra on how to construct these shapes (which in turn teaches them about shape properties).   Using GeoGebra the students can learn the geometric shapes properties and verify it using the drag test.

The task

The Perimeter of the Garden

An example plan

The Geogebra plans can easily be created as the same examples given or changed depending on how difficult you would like to make it for you students.

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