Abstract
In today’s modernized education system, it is important to provide students with a comprehensive education and teach them to apply the acquired knowledge in practice. The subject of geometry, taught in the school course, also contributes to the student’s knowledge of the world around him, the study of the properties of objects in space. The article discusses the features of one of the sections of geometry-stereometry, similarities and differences in the field of planimetry. The purpose and essence of teaching the field of stereometry in the school course are also indicated, as well as the benefits of stereometry for students are analyzed.