Correct Answer - Option 1 : Observation of geometrical figures
According to National Curriculum Framework-2005, the main goal of Mathematics education in school is the mathematization of the child’s thought process. Mathematics relies on logic, reasoning, problem-solving, creativity, and mathematical way of thinking. These skills can be useful in many other subjects.
- Primary students need a solid foundation in geometry in order to be successful later in middle school and high school geometry.
- Classroom activities should encourage students to observe, compare, make hypotheses, and then prove or disprove their hypotheses.
- The geometry presented in primary classrooms focuses mainly on the identification and observation of basic shapes.
- At the primary level, the teacher mainly expects their students to observe and identify the different shapes such as square, rectangle, triangle, etc.
- When students are able to observe and identify the geometrical shapes only then they will be able to define them and draw them.
- The students at the primary level are not able to give logical proof of the geometrical figures as this skill is needed to be acquired by them at higher levels of classes.
- The effective teaching of geometry at the primary level lays the foundation for the understanding of basic geometrical shapes that will further help the students in conceptual understanding of geometry at higher levels of classes.
Hence, it could be concluded that the objective of teaching geometry at the primary stage is the observation of geometrical figures.
