FORMATION OF SPATIAL REPRESENTATION OF STUDENTS IN THE LESSONS OF GRAPHICAL DISCIPLINES

The authors consider the reasons for the poor development of spatial representation of students from first rate universities. As a method of successful development of spatial representation while studying graphic disciplines it is proposed to use an approach, including objectives, methods, techniques and exercises, assignments and tests, which was developed at the Department of descriptive geometry and graphics. All the exercises are classified into the following groups: building a left view basing on two given projections; addition of the views (main, top or left) with the missing lines according to a projection relationship; building axonometric projection of a detail (node) on the given orthogonal projections; comparison of the detail drawing with the model and its visual image; mapping a complex drawing and a visual depiction of a component; building of missing projections of points on certain surfaces of the details; the view of the subject’s form by partitioning it into separate geometric bodies, etc. The authors also demonstrate the importance of taking into account individual characteristics of students in order to improve their spatial representations. Each group of exercises of this system focuses on conscious and active work of students and solves a certain problem arising from the theoretical foundations of the development of spatial representation