Visual Sense: Mixed Impressions

Graded Geometric Figures

Materials Three boxes with three compartments each:
1. With three sets of equilateral triangles in red, blue and yellow
respectively with the sides from 1 to 10 cm
2. With 3 sets of squares in red, blue and yellow respectively, with
the sides from 1 to 10 cm
3. With three sets of circles in red, blue and yellow respectively,
with the diameter from 1 to 10 cm

Purposes  To further the child’s experience with shapes (plane figures)

 Preparation for Ornamental Geometry

Age 4.5 and up

Presentation 1. Invite child, show where boxes are. They choose 1 & find table.
2. Scatter one color of each shape (squares are easiest) onto table.
Grade them from left to right and largest to smallest, or another way.
3. Invite the child to repeat.
4. Ask the child to show a different way to arrange the shapes.

Exercise 1 Exploring with 2 or 3 different colors

Follow the same procedure as above with two colors of the same
shape. Invite child to add a third color of the same shape.

Exercise 2 Exploring with 2 or 3 different shapes

Show something that can be done with multiple shapes. Do not
present inscribing – they’ll discover this on their own.

Control of Error None

Following None
Exercises

Language Inscribed: Just fits inside the shape

Tangent: Share a point / Adjacent: Share a line
Superimposed: Share a common center point
(The language can be given, but it is done informally.)

Sensorial Games None

Pedagogical This material was previously named Superimposed Geometric

Notes Figures and was used to show the geometric principles of inscribed,
tangent, adjacent and superimposed. Now the material more
exploratory.
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Visual Sense: Mixed Impressions
Graded Geometric Figures