The major objectives of teaching geometry in the primary grades are to enable pupils :
- To identify various geometric figures from physical models, including the square, rectangle, circle, triangle, cube, cylinder. pyramid, cone, and sphere.
- To recognise certain properties of shapes from physical models and drawing, with some attention to type of regions, edges, angles, sides, and so on.
- To sort, compare, measure, and draw various geometric plane figures.
At the elementary school level, pupils are informally taught concepts and general notions about geometric figures, without formal definitions and proof.
Phares G.O'Daffer '81pp.90