Saturday, August 18, 2007

Maths around us!


  • What does these remind us?
  • Rectangles only? How about naming 3-dimensional objects like cylinder?
  • Of course, not forgetting lines of symmetry, reflection...
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  • Line of symmetry
  • Shapes - rectangles? semicircles? quadrants?

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  • Circles... Straight Lines... Right angles... Acute angles
  • What else do they offer?

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  • Windows with security bars! No, no... It's rectangles and parallel lines!
  • How many sets of parallel lines are there?
  • How many lines of symmetry are there?
  • Rhombus! Rhombus! Triangles! Triangles!
  • What make up by What? Triangles by Rhombus? Rhombus by Triangles?

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  • Do these look familiar? Looks like the deco to the old houses in hutongs in Beijing?
  • No, no, this is not from China... It's found at Katong in Singapore!
  • It's Art? It's Maths!
  • Line(s) of Symmetry? Centre of Rotation? Reflection?
  • How many "L"s are there?
  • How about right angles?

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  • What shapes can you find here?
  • How many (of each shape) are there?
  • Symmetry!!! Where's the line of symmetry?


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  • How many rectangles here comply to the propertes of rectangle?

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  • Angles, angles everywhere! Have you spotted the marked angles?
  • What angles can you find here?
  • Acute angle? Right-angle? Obtuse angle? Straight line angle? Reflex angle?
  • Which angles are the same? What angle property can we apply here?
  • What about shapes?
  • Triangles? Circles? What other polygons?

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