Graphs fall under which type of teaching aid?

A teaching aid is anything used by a teacher to help teach a lesson or make it more interesting to students. Teaching aids can come in almost any form. Some of the most common are pictures, videos, charts, flashcards, and objects, like three-dimensional models or educational toys.

Key Points

• Visual aids refer to the aids which maximize learning with the help of the visual system.
• It activates the sense of vision to enrich learners' knowledge and for heightening their intellectual abilities.
• They include graphs, display boards, print material, charts, blackboards, maps, flashcards, etc.
• Graphs are the visual representation of numerical data. Learners’ abilities to recognize concepts such as “more”, “greater than”, “higher”, “taller”, “smaller” etc., can easily be developed through graphs

Thus, it is concluded that Graphs fall under visual teaching aid.

Additional Information

• Projective aids refer to the aids which are used to introduce concepts by projecting them on a screen. These are the types of audio-visual aids that maximize learning with the help of both auditory and visual systems.
• Audio aids refer to the learning equipment that maximizes learning with the help of the auditory system. It enriches learner’s knowledge by activating their sense of hearing
• Audio-visual aids are those which require the involvement of learners’ visual and audio senses (both “seeing” and “hearing”).