Objective: I will make connections between some real world situations and geometry and its development.
Essential Question: How might the world be different if we didn't develop formalized Euclidean or Spherical Geometry?
Classwork: Go over syllabus, types and history of geometry and how to take Cornell notes in class.
Homework due today: No homework due today. It's only the 1st day of school! ; )
Due Next Time: Cornell Notes on Points, Lines and Planes (Regular Geometry)
Cornell Notes on Points, Lines, Planes and Constructions (PreAP Geometry)
Lesson and Notes (4 Videos)
Part 1: Breaking News Report on the Crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-17
Part 2: Strange Planes & Straight Lines
Part 3: Triangles in Euclidean and Spherical Geometries
Part 4: Development of Geometry up to Euclid & Pythagoras
Explore Further:
"Think Globally" NY Times article on different geometries of surfaces
planefinder.net - Explore the flight paths of planes around the world. Very cool app!
Google Earth - Used for lots of things. You may have to turn on grid view to see latitudes and longitudes.
TedTalk Coral, Crochet & Hyperbolic Geometry - Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician — celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.
What was up with Pythagoras? Learn about the developer of the Pythagorean Theorem, his irrational fear of beans and his crazy cult and their irrational fear of the square root of 2.