Introduction Do you ever use math as a tool to solve interesting problems? In the 1970s math was often taught with simple worksheets. One teacher was looking for a way to help his students have more ...

Narrator: Okay. Draw a rectangle.Now, measure the perimeter. It’s the total length around a shape. But what if you couldn’t measure the sides? Then you’d have to use what information you do know to ...

The area of a kite is found in the same way as a rhombus, that is by splitting it into two triangles.

Depicted above are two similar triangles; their sides are parallel. The largest angle in either triangle above is 66 degrees. The smallest angle in either triangle above is 52 degrees. The inner ...

Archimedes' method finds an approximation of pi by determining the length of the perimeter of a polygon inscribed within a circle (which is less than the circumference of the circle) and the perimeter ...