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Mathematics skills
Students are exposed to mathematics concepts in a
practical way by drawing and manipulating shapes. They improve their mathematics
vocabulary and concepts by creating and analyzing tabs+ models.
Students learn to understand 3D worlds in a 2D screen environment, learn to use
quadrants, coordinates and x,y,z axes. They learn about translating,
scaling, stretching and rotating shapes on the screen.
Shapes
Creating a shape in aspexTabsMST
is very simple, most shapes requiring just two mouse clicks. Many basic
shape types are supported, including cuboid, cylinder, cone, sphere,
frustum of cone, regular prism, irregular prism, pyramid, frustum of
pyramid, torus, solid of rotation, and all five Platonic Solids.
Shape properties such as width, height, and radius are
displayed on each shape and can be edited manually, or by dragging the
mouse. A list of properties including angles, lengths, surface areas, and
volumes can be displayed, which updates as the shape is resized.
Projections
aspexTabsMST
can display front, side, top, bottom, isometric and perspective
views, and also 1st and 3rd angle projections, all of which can be printed
out.
Nets
aspexTabsMST
automatically
generates nets of any model, which can then be printed, cut out, and glued
together, making a physical model. This is great fun to build, and gives
projects a tangible result.
Before
making a model on aspexTabsMST,
students can make estimates and calculations for volume and area, which
can then be verified by measurements on the paper models.
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