NAIL BOARD

By : RIA REZEKI (1211441027)

Introduction :
Nail board, sometimes called geoboard, pegboard, or pinboard, is boards with nails in a
particular pattern. It is an invaluable manipulative for any classroom at primary level to
support childrens mathematical development.
Nail board lend itselves to supporting childrens understanding of the names of the certain
polygons (e.g., square, triangle, paralellogram, etc.), perimeter, and area.
Ideally, students will be able to experience working with real nail board in the classroom.
However, if this not possible, dotty paper could be used.

How to make nail board ?

Materials needed :
1 package push nails
1 package of rubber bands
1 wooden board
a hammer
a pencil
a ruler
Step to make nail board :
1.

Gather your materials. In this case, i use a board with measurement is 30 cm x 18 cm.

2.

Spray paint your boards (optional). Use a brightly colour to attrack your student.

3.

Draw your outline, marking a line at some centimeter interval (e.g.: 2 cm)

4.

Connect the markings with your ruler to creat a grid.

5.

Hammer in a nail it each cross on the grid. Be carefull!

6.

Keep banging until the nails complete the grid.

Nail board activities :

Activity 1 : Introducing the name of plane geometry and their characteristics
Teacher introduces the name of the flat figures by showing their pictures on nail board.
Name of flat figures

Characteristics

It have 4 sides and 4 vertex

All of its sides have same length
It have 4 angles with the measure is 90o
Square
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Rectangle
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Triangle

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Trapezoid
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Rhombus

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Activity 2 : Introducing the concept of perimeter
Teacher explains the definition of perimeter and shows the examples.
The perimeter of a shape is the distance around its edge. Find the perimeter just means
adding up the length of all its sides.
The picture at the right side shows two shapes with
a perimeter 12 units.
Make another shape using nail board and rubber
bands with a perimeter 12 units. Draw the result on
graph paper or dot paper.

Activity 3 : Introducing the concept of area

Teacher explains the definition of area and shows the examples.
Simply, area is the size of a two-dimensional surface. Area is the mathematical
term area can be defined as the amount of two-dimensional space taken up by an object.
The area of a shape can be determined by placing that shape over a grid and counting the
number of squares that the shape covers, like in the image below.

The picture of the right side shows two shapes

with an area of 5 units. Make another shape
using nail board and rubber bands with an area
of 5 units. Draw the result on graph paper or
dot paper.

Activity 4 : Calculating the Area of Rectangle

Calculating the area of rectangle means to calculate the area bounded by rectangle. Using
rubber bands on nail board, given several example of a rectangle, then fill in the following
table in accordance with the existing form.

Picture
(1)
1.
2.
3.
4.

Area of
rectangle
(2)

Length (l)

Width (w)

(3)

(4)

Relation between
length and width
(5)

Column (2) is seeking the rectangular area in a way to count the number of unit area. After
the columns in the above table are all filled out, students are guided to make a relation
between column (3) and (4).
Conclusion :
If rectangular has a length l and width w, the rectangular area equals with length multiplied
by width or l x w.

References
http://www.mathplayground.com/geoboard.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/maths/measures/perimeter/revision/1/
http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/what-is-area-in-math-definition-formulaquiz.html#lesson