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