The Surface Area and Volume Ratio
The sizes of living things
Ask Dr. Math
Application with water spiders
Application to health
Dodecahedron
#10
When a piece of paper if folded, why is the crease straight?
Why is it that chairs so often rock from one leg to another while three legged stools never have this problem?
Is it possible to cut an obtuse triangle into triangular pieces, all of which are acute?
Our principal decided to plant an orchard of 10 trees (in place of the portable classrooms). However, being a student of mathematics at heart, he set the trees out in five rows with four trees in each row. Can you determine how he did this?
Explain why the line through (0,3) and (4,6) is said to be parallel to the line that contains the points (-6, -2) and (-2,1).
How can you measure the width of a river without really crossing it?
Using your Geometry book for the definitions of parallelogram, rectangles, rhombus and square, make a diagram to illustrate how these figures relate to each other. Place a trapezoid and kite in this diagram and justify the its position.
Plot the points A(2,3), B(7,4), and C(9,8). Find a point D such that ABCD is a parallelogram. Also find another point that would make CABD a parallelogram. Is is possible to make a parallelogram which could be labeled ACBD?
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