Thursday, August 28
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Introduction to course organization.
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Student Information sheets.
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Web Materials
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Portfolios and grading
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Miscellaneous: Some topics we will study.
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The film lists as a guide to the course topics.
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The color problem.
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The Sphere and the Torus.
Who first showed the earth was a sphere?
Galileo
Egyptian Shadows?
Magellan: Circumnavigated
Copernicus: Belief
Pictures from "outer space"
Perry.Polar expeditions. Air navigational history
Curvature
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Flatland as social commentary/satire.
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Measurement and the Pythagorean Theorem (PT) [1.1]
a2 + b2 = c2
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Measuring angles, lengths and areas.
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Squares, rectangles, parallelograms and triangles.
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Dissections, cut and paste methods of measurement.
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Cutting and reassembling polygons.
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The Square Me Puzzle.
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Do Pythagorean
Activity Sheet
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Show video on PT
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Puzzles and Polygons [1.2]
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Flatland and the plane
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The triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, and hexagon.
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More on measurements of angles and areas of polyons.
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Activity: 1.2 Ex. 4, 5, 6