View the following URL's sites that are highlighted and answer the following questions.

Answer all questions in complete sentences (not one word answers).

Ancient Geometry (history of)
http://members.aol.com/bbyars1/contents.html
1.  Who was the most famous geometry teacher?
2.  Why was John Playfair important to geometry?  Describe in your own words.
3.  Name Euclid's five axioms.

Tangram history
http://www.teleport.com/~sgc/tangrams.htm
1.  Can you guess the 6 animal shapes?
(Answers may vary according to what the student may see.)
2.  Who recommends the pattern games?
http://www.stargraphics.com/tansoc.htm

Tangram History 2
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/1335/tanhist.htm
 1.  When was the earliest known Chinese book found?
 2.  Who was the tangram puzzle game intended for?
 3.  What happened in the 19th century?
 4.  Where did tangrams become popular?
 5.  What types of materials were used to make the tangram sets during this time?
 6.  Who was the author and what was the title of the book that came out in 1903?
 7.  What was the book about?
 8.  What was wrong with the book?
 9.  How many patterns were in the book?
10.  What are the rules for solving a tangram puzzle?

Tangrams
http://www.careergroup.com/chinesetangrams.html
1.  Identify the seven figures.
(Answers may vary according to what the student may se.)
2.  Name the pieces of the tangram.
3.  How many characters can be created using the tangram set?
4.  How many other pieces can be used to create or solve puzzles?

Activity
http://www.edc.org/LTT/ConnGeo/tangrams.html
Use two triangles to draw a parallelogram, a square, and a bigger triangle and find the area of each.

Isosceles Triangle Conjectures
http://www.geom.umn.edu/~dwiggins/conj13.html
1.  What are base angles?
2.  If a triangle is isosceles, then the ___________________________________.

Isosceles Triangle
http://tqd.advanced.org/2918/geo/isosceles.triangle.html
1.  Define isosceles triangle.
2.  Draw the diagram you see.

Isosceles
http://www.treasure-troves.com/math/IsoscelesTriangle.html
1.  Where does the word Isosceles come from?
2.  Iso means ____________________and skelos means __________________________.