Oct18
In today’s post, we’ll be relating clocks to angles as we are learning how to calculate the angle that the two hands of a clock form. An analog clock has 12 numbers, which divide the clock in 12 equal parts. These divisions indicate the hours. Each hour is divided into five subdivisions that amount to […]
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A long, long time ago (give or take 2,000 years) there was a culture, to which we owe a sizable part of the Mathematics that we know today: Ancient Greece. The most important contribution probably came from Euclid, who gathered all the information that was known about Mathematics at the time and compiled it […]
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In today’s post we’re going to talk about geometric figures that, without us noticing, play a much bigger role in our lives than we think. We’ve looked at different geometric shapes in previous posts, you can see them here. How many geometric shapes can you find? Let’s look at some of them: A Triangle is […]
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In today’s post we will take a look at open and closed polygons. But first, we need to know what polygons are: polygons are several straight segments placed together. Polygons can be classified as open or closed. A polygon is open when the segments do not all connect at the beginning and end. That is, if […]
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We’ve already seen some of the main geometric shapes in earlier posts. In this post, we’re going to look more in depth at the circle. The circle is a geometrical shape that is made by drawing a curve that always has the same distance from the point that we refer to as the center. In […]
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