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Peer reviewedAslan, Farhad,; And Others – School Science and Mathematics, 1992
Presents the Morris Loe Angle Trisection Approximation Method to introduce students to areas of mathematics where approximations are used when exact answers are difficult or impossible to obtain. Examines the accuracy of the method using the laws of sines and cosines and a BASIC computer program that is provided. (MDH)
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, Estimation (Mathematics), Geometric Constructions, Geometry
Peer reviewedMathematics Teacher, 1993
Presents three teaching strategies requiring active student participation in which students (1) create and solve their own word problems; (2) generate trigonometric expressions to be solved by their classmates; and (3) act as points to model a basic locus of points. (MDH)
Descriptors: Definitions, Geometric Constructions, Learning Activities, Learning Strategies
