The workshop is divided in two main parts. In the first one, different types of surfaces, their sections (meaning which plain figures can appear on a surface that is cut by another plain) and the implementation of our knowledge about the sections of geometrical bodies will be explained. In the second part, attendees will have the opportunity to build real models of the surfaces that they have seen in the first part, based on some sectional families of the surfaces.  Using templates, paper and scissors, they will cut the sections and then rebuild the surface.

María García Monera, secondary school professor of mathematics, is the responsible of carrying out this workshop in the Faculty of Mathematics in Burjassot.