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.

Monday, September 26, 2016

The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg

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Konigsberg is a town in former Prussia that is built around the Pregel River.  In the eighteenth century, there were seven bridges that con...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Pick’s Theorem

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Pick’s Theorem, first described by the Jewish-Austrian mathematician Georg Alexander Pick in 1899, finds the area of any polygon formed on ...
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Proof of Pick’s Theorem for Three Dimensions

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If a polyhedron is formed on a unit grid such that all of its sides are on one of the unit grid segments, all of its border sides connect t...
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