National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2013 Annual Meeting and Exposition

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569- Finding a Triangle's Area: A Case Study in Vertical Articulation

Friday, April 19, 2013: 3:30 PM-4:30 PM
Mile High 4 E/F (Convention Center)
Lead Speaker:
Margaret Coffey


The task of finding the area of a triangle occupies students from elementary grades through calculus. Join me on a "vertically articulated" tour: from counting squares to square matrices, from geometry to trigonometry, to the cross product of two vectors. Historical highlights of the tour are the contributions of Heron and Georg Pick.

Presentation Format: General Interest / All Audiences Session
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