1. Geometry

2. What is Geometry? What geometry did you learn in primary school?

3. What is Geometry Study of Shapes and their Properties

4. Students did the following activity.

5. Activity 1.1 Name these shapes

6. How useful is Geometry?

7. How Useful is Geometry? Design and Construction of Buildings

8. How Useful is Geometry? Navigation

9. How Useful is Geometry? Art

10. How Useful is Geometry? Measurement

11. Students did the following activity.

12. Activity 1.2 Find the length of the perimeters of each of the following shapes

13. Higher order activity

14. Activity 1.3

16. History

17. The Origins of Geometry The geometry that we study in school was invented by the ancient Greek mathematicians.

18. What Did You Learn? Write down three things that you learned in today’s lesson.

19. Homework Geometry investigates the properties of two dimensional and three dimensional s__________. A mathematician who works in the field of geometry is called a g_______________. Euclid was called the ‘__________ of Geometry’. Euclid is famous for his book, The E____________. Name two, 2-dimensional shapes (i)______________ (ii) ___________ Name two, 3-dimensional shapes (i)______________ (ii) ___________ What 2-dimensional shape has eight sides? _____________________

20. Homework Use the Internet to: –Find out three things about Euclid –Name two other Greek geometers