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Peer reviewedBrinkworth, Peter; Scott, Paul – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1999
Discusses a town called Chartres and its cathedral which features the figure of Pythagoras. Discusses the Pythagorean theorem and his mathematical contributions to music. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Geometry, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedBrinkworth, Peter; Scott, Paul – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1997
Introduces a place of mathematics using a town called Amiens and its Cathedral whose overall floor plan was based on the Greek cross using proportions matching that of the ideal human body, the figures in the shape of an octagram or star octagon, and the symbols in the design. (ASK)
Descriptors: Architecture, Building Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Geometry
Peer reviewedBrinkworth, Peter – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1998
Introduces handling data as conceived by Euclid, which provides some interesting possibilities for students to investigate fundamental geometrical ideas as well as relating some elementary geometry with elementary trigonometry. (ASK)
Descriptors: Data Processing, Elementary Secondary Education, Geometric Concepts, Geometry
