Math Goals in the Fifth Year
Materials Needed
Lesson 1: An Introduction
Freehand Renderings and Constructions with a Straight edge
Shading from the Periphery
Shading from the Center
Intersections and Outlines
Lesson 2: The Nature of Straight Lines
Lesson 3: Points and Rays
Lesson 4: Euclid; Discovering Triangles
Lesson 5: Earth Measure--the 3,4,5 Triangle
Lesson 6: Angles and Degrees
Lessons 7, 8, and 9 Triangle Designs; Interior Angles
Lessons 10, 11, and 12: Triangles, Circles and Earth Measure
Thales, Hipparchus, and Eratosthenes
Lesson 13: Discovering Quadrilaterals
Lessons 14 and 15: Designs with Squares and Rectangles
Lesson 16: The Parallelogram
Lesson 17: The Pentagon and Hexagon
Lesson 18: Straight Lines Create Curved Lines
Lessons 19 and 20: Circles and Ellipses, Mysterious Pi
Lesson 21: Prime Numbers The Sieve of Eratosthenes
Lesson 22 and 23: Pythagoras and the Nature of Number
Lesson 24: Babylonian and Egyptian Numbers
Lesson 25: Modern Binary Numbers
Lessons 26 and 27: Averages, Mean, Median, and Mode
Lesson 28: The Art of Estimation
Lessons 29 and 30: Multiplication Number Magic
Bibliography