Dec08
What’s an angle? Right, obtuse, straight, acute angle… what are these and what do they have to do with angles? If they can be measured… how can we measure them? What are they used for? …These are some of the questions that we’re going to answer in this post. So…let’s do this! Angles: An area marked […]
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In this week’s post, we will look at the cylinders. Have you heard of them? Do you know what they are? Do you know their characteristics? We will talk about all of this below. What are cylinders? Cylinders are geometric solids that are formed by a rectangle rotating about one of its sides. How are […]
Continue reading »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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