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Brinkworth, Peter; Scott, Paul – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1998
Presents an activity in which students study mathematically the structure of the most perfect building ever created, the Parthenon. Focuses on the conic sections. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
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Brinkworth, 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
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Brinkworth, 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
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Brinkworth, Peter; Scott, Paul – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1998
Presents an activity in which students study geometrically the structure of tiling in a cafe in Bristol. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
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Brinkworth, Peter; Scott, Paul – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2000
Discusses the mathematical features of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Describes measuring latitude and longitude, pendulum clocks, telling time, and chronometers. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Relevance (Education)
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Brinkworth, 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