Geometry for real

Illustration 1. Poster of the event of Principia at UMA The past 8 th and 9 th of May of 2019, the students of Primary Teaching Degree had the chance to assist to a series of workshops in the ‘Science a Technology Conferences’, organised by the science education department at the University of Málaga. In those days, the centre of science Principia was in charge of the conferences and different workshops that were carried out.  One of the workshops was especially significant for me not only for the interest of the content but also for the effort that the teacher showed in making it useful for us as teachers.  In this specific workshop we were working which the idea of structures . What is a structure? Is a construction that does not alter its form when we apply a force . Take the example in the picture. Is this construction a real structure?    Illustration 2 . Construction made of gummies and spaghettis. This is a two-dimension structure with a di