CORELLATION OF MATHEMATICS AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The aim of each modern teaching is integrated learning while various
knowledge is associated horizontally and vertically. At the Teachers' Training
Faculty in Belgrade,
we have practiced camping of our students at the most remote parts of Serbia
where students learn how to survive in nature. They find themselves in various and
most incredible situations in which they have to practice mounteneering, swimming,
finding food in the surroundings in nature, etc. It has shown that many situations,
besides physical fitness and good health, require a solid mathematical knowledge. We
are trying to present elementally mathematical knowledge indispensable for survival
outdoors, in nature, in this work. These knowledge enable us to orientate without a
compass, determine the height of an object , the width of a river, the distance of
heavenly bodies, etc. Having in mind the fact that future teachers are on camping, we
also point to the aesthetic side of upbringing and education.
We admire mathematical organization of nature in various situations. We point
to mathematics present at a leaf of a tree, honeycomb of bees, animals’ growth , etc.