Ptolemy's Ptools
Quadrant Projects - Taking the Ptools Outdoors:
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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