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 straightedge. Show all posts
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Monday, January 4, 2016

Euler Line

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Most Geometry classes go over the different properties of triangles, including the orthocenter, centroid, and circumcenter.  The orthocente...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Church Window Design

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Last week while I was waiting to pick up my kids from their school carpool line, I noticed that all the windows in the church building had ...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Solving a Quadratic with a Straightedge and Compass

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In most high school algebra classes, students learn to solve a quadratic ax 2 + bx + c = 0 using a variety of different methods.  The most...
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