Ptolemy's Ptools

Quadrant Projects - Taking the Ptools Outdoors:

Sighting with your Quadrant

The Quadrant - What is it and where did it come from?

Measure a Building or Tree's Height - a VERY EASY adventure.

Measure the Altitude of Clouds - YOU can do it with CARDBOARD tools!

Measure the Height of a Model Rocket's Flight - BLAST OFF! to new discoveries in geometry.

Triangulate the Distance Across a Creek, River or ??? (without going across it)- more adventures with CARDBOARD.

Visiting Central Florida?? -check out some of the places that you can measure with your quadrant.


How It Works:

We are using the properties of triangles to compare similar triangles.


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