How to explain the concept of "Plane" (Geometry) to 5th/6th class students?

Question

I would like to have anyone with teaching experience in Maths answer this and your success stories too!

Answer 1

Ask yoyour students to imagine a magical grain of sand.... or a marble.... Now hold it with fingers of both hands and stretch it like it were a gum..... what u have is a line..... After ur students have understood this ask them to hold the line as above across its width..... and stretch the line laterally to form a sheet or carpet of sorts..... u now have a plane built out of a point so it is easy to grasp.... this can be continued to the cube.
This is basically a classic explanation for zero-one -two- three dimensional geometry.

Answer 2

You could try pointing out the walls, the ceiling, the floor, their desktops. Each is on a different plane. You might consider taking large sheets of butcher paper and fastening it to the wall on one short side and have the kids (gently) hold up he other end at different angles to show other planes. Maybe two sheets side by side, have a couple kids hold the unfastened end about 2 feet off the ground and have another set of kids hold the second sheet about 4 feet off the ground on the unfastened side.

Answer 3

Um...drawing it on the baord would help. Then give them a simple defination, like: A plane is a figure with three or more points in it. Then if they are still confused, look in their text book, usually the books are hopeless, but in this case. My teacher made us color the plane yellow. The points were black. The outside of the plane were blue. She made us memorize tha colors of the plane, to help us. I finally figured it out after all of that.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

my teacher just told me that a plane could be any shape, as long as it had so many points (i cant remember how many) then he showed us things in the class room and asked us if it was a plane or not. it was very useful. now if i can only remember how many points it had...

Answer 6

explain it similar objects

Example question: how to explain a tiger to 5 year old child ?
Answer : simple, show a cat and then say it will be
more bigger than that

i think you got it.

Answer 7

I learned it by shoving cut index cards into each other in order to see the different surfaces. its a great visual