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| Cynthia Lanius | |
| Geometry activities from a geometry class at Milby High School in Houston, Texas. Topics include: History of Geometry (contributions of Egyptians, Babylonians, and Greeks, with links to biographies of major contributors to geometry); Hidden Polygons (locate them on triangular grid paper); Isosceles Triangle Puzzler (use the Isosceles Triangle Theorem to analyze a problem with similar triangles - answers can be submitted online); Circles and Pythagoras; an SAT-Type Quiz (graded online); The Golden Ratio (do a measuring activity and build a rectangle that approaches the golden ratio; Experiment with Volume (demonstration of volume of cylinders; School-Bus Geometry (a non-Euclidean geometry introduced using a school bus rather than a taxicab; and Glossary of geometric terms. Includes Geometer's Sketchpad sketches to download. | |
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| Levels: | Middle School (6-8), High School (9-12) |
| Languages: | English |
| Resource Types: | Lesson Plans and Activities, Collections, Internet-Based Projects, Dictionaries, Glossaries, Thesauri, Geometer's Sketchpad |
| Math Topics: | Golden Ratio/Fibonacci, Discrete Math, Higher-Dimensional Geometry, Triangles and Other Polygons, Non-Euclidean Geometry |
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