| Activity: A Japanese Temple Problem | |||
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| Description: | In this guided Geometer's Sketchpad exploration, students use their knowledge of tangent circles to discover a relationship between the radii of three circles which are mutually tangent to each other and an external line.
This proof was drawn up on a wooden block and hung in a temple in Gunma prefecture of Japan in the early 1800's . The practice of hanging such proofs was called Sangaku. |
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| Technology Type: | Sketchpad | ||
| Author: | Pat Ballew: Explorations in Geometry | ||
| Language: | English | ||
| Cost: | Does not require payment for use | ||
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| Activity: | Kissing Circles | ||
| Courses: | Geometry | Circles, Tangents | |
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