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Shapes on the ground: geometry you can walk

November 7, 2026 by Akhil K Singh
Cover for P33

A child can count a triangle’s sides and still say a tipped one is not a triangle. Chalk the shape on the ground, let her walk it, and her feet settle what her eyes could not.

Categories Practices Tags age-6-8, age-8-11, for-teachers, movement, proprioception Leave a comment

The stretch break that teaches anatomy

November 7, 2026 by Akhil K Singh
Cover for P13

Five minutes of stretching can also be five minutes of anatomy. Children move one part of the body, name it and feel it working from the inside.

Categories Practices Tags age-6-8, age-8-11, body-schema, for-teachers, proprioception Leave a comment

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Akhil Kumar Singh, PhD

PhD, IIT Jodhpur · Author, Brill 2025

Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bengaluru

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