One of the lesson plans that I just made for physics involved the students getting up and walking around. We could teach students just by the book definitions of displacement/distance, or we could actually have them walk around and see the distinctions between the two. This definitely helps the students understand the concepts more and also makes it more memorable!
Reflecting back to my high school math class, I do not remember learning too much about geometry, only really about circles and triangles. I had no idea that these complex shapes such as hyperboloids existed. I feel applying a bodily movement to relate to the hyperboloid would be particularly challenging and I'm not too sure how I would approach it.
I feel like using gestures as when we are teaching almost comes naturally. People tend to move/wave their arms around when they talk. For example in physics or math when we are talking about waves, it's helpful for students when we use gestures because they can get an idea of what the wave looks like.
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