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Month: April 2015

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Tangents and the Pythagorean Theorem

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

A common exercise that’s used to reinforce the concept that the tangent of a circle is perpendicular to its radius involves finding the radius of a circle...

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Spelling and Math

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

Last night, as part of our learning-play, I asked my five-year-old son how to spell “night”. He told me “nitk”. That got me thinking abo...

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Radicals and Mixed Numbers

Posted on April 18, 2015 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

The lesser known of two math memes currently wandering around the Internet involves an interesting equation: \[\sqrt{2\frac{2}{3}} = 2\sqrt{\frac{2}{3}}\] This ...

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Introducing the Spry

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Clio Corvid / 1 Comment

Some time ago, the discussion on π being the incorrect number for calculations in trigonometry, in favor of τ (2π), led me to muse about creating a unit to repl...

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Polygon Sets: Doing the Math

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Clio Corvid / 1 Comment

In my previous post, I created sets of regular polygons in GeoGebra by setting a parameter of the polygons equal to a constant. In this post, I will show the ma...

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Polygon Sets

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Clio Corvid / 0 Comment

I recently found myself creating a set of regular polygons for a worksheet. I used GeoGebra to create them, and then free-handed the zoom in order to get them c...

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