Exploring Shape & Motion in 2D/3D Spaces | Online Short Course
This course offers a deep dive into the fascinating world of geometry and movement across two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces. Designed for educators, learners, and professionals, this course brings together mathematical concepts and real-world applications to help you understand and visualise the relationships between shapes, space, and motion.
Understanding these principles isn’t just for engineers or mathematicians—it’s essential for problem-solving, design thinking, and even effective planning and execution, which is why it’s increasingly relevant in project management courses and STEM-related fields.
What You’ll Learn
Through this course, you’ll gain critical knowledge and practical skills in:
- Understanding the properties of 2D and 3D geometric shapes.
- Exploring transformations including translations, rotations, reflections, and enlargements.
- Investigating how objects move in space and how to represent motion graphically.
- Applying spatial reasoning to solve problems in academic and professional settings.
- Connecting geometric concepts to real-world challenges in design, architecture, and project planning.
These skills are crucial for anyone seeking to build foundational competencies in spatial thinking and to enhance their analytical approach in complex, multi-dimensional projects—skills also highlighted in top project management courses.
Who Should Enrol
This course is suitable for learners, educators, and professionals across various disciplines, especially those working in STEM, design, education, and project planning.
Ideal for:
- Educators and curriculum developers looking to strengthen geometry instruction.
- Students aiming to improve their understanding of spatial concepts.
- Professionals in engineering, architecture, or design who work with geometric data.
- Project managers seeking a stronger grasp of spatial logic for task coordination and visualisation.
Whether you’re exploring shape and motion as part of your academic journey or incorporating it into your strategic thinking within project management courses, this course will equip you with the tools to think critically and act confidently.
Enrol today to sharpen your spatial awareness and take a structured step toward mastering the dynamics of shape and motion in both 2D and 3D spaces.
Description
Handling real-life measurements and calculations, fitting for daily life or work needs. Additionally, you’ll delve into geometry to solve problems, exploring shapes in both two and three dimensions while justifying your findings.
Course Content
- Scales on the measuring instruments are read correctly
- Quantities are estimated to a tolerance justified in the context of the need
- The appropriate instrument is chosen to measure a particular quantity
- Quantities are measured correctly to within the last step of the instrument
- Calculations are carried out correctly
- Symbols and units are used in accordance with SI conventions and as appropriate to the situations
- Descriptions are based on a systematic analysis of the shapes and reflect the properties of the shapes accurately, clearly and completely
- Descriptions include quantitative information appropriate to the situation and need
- Conjectures as appropriate to the situation, are based on well-planned investigations of geometrical properties
- Representations of the problems are consistent with and appropriate to the problem context. The problems are represented comprehensively and in mathematical terms
- Results are achieved through efficient and correct analysis and manipulation of representations
- Problem-solving methods are presented clearly, logically and in mathematical terms
- Solutions are correct and are interpreted and valid in terms of the context of the problem
Accreditation
- Non-accredited: Short course only
- Duration: 1h 30m
- Delivery: Classroom/Online/Blended
- Access Period: 12 Months
