The Lost Math Lessons

As a high school math teacher, I often run across or develop math ideas that are not taught in a typical math curriculum. Here are some of those ideas.

Showing posts with label ellipse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ellipse. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Circles of Apollonius of a Triangle

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Let’s investigate all triangles in which one side length is twice another side length and the third side length is a constant length of 9. S...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

The Imaginary Part of a Parabola

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Parabolas are commonly taught in most high school algebra classes. All parabolas are curves defined by a quadratic equation and are symmetr...
Friday, January 16, 2015

Areas of Conics

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Most of us know area formulas for basic geometrical objects, such as circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles.  (The area of a circle is...
Monday, November 3, 2014

The Function x^2 + xy + y^2 – Part 8

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8)       On the number table, x 2 + xy + y 2 is elliptical in shape, slanted at a 45 ° angle On the number table, x 2 + xy + y 2 i...
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