We present background and an activity meant to show both instructors and students that mere button pushing with technology is insufficient for success, but that additional thought and preparation will permit the technology to serve as an excellent tool in the understanding and learning of mathematics. (Contains 5 figures.)

Two curious thought experiments concerning the speed of light are presented which have been used to provoke the interest of undergraduate physics students. (Contains 2 figures.)

Trigonometric parallax is a powerful method to work out the distance of celestial bodies, and it was used in the past to measure the distance of the Moon, Venus, Mars and nearby stars. We set up an observation campaign for high school and undergraduate students with the purpose to measure both the Moon's and Mars' parallax. To have a large enough…

This article shows how to use six parameters describing the International Space Station's orbit to predict when and in what part of the sky observers can look for the station as it passes over their location. The method requires only a good background in trigonometry and some familiarity with elementary vector and matrix operations. An included…

This textbook commences with a brief sketch of the history of Elementary Geometry. The definitions throughout have been somewhat amplified, and several notes have been added which it is hoped may be found useful and suggestive. The subject of Ratio has been expanded; a few new propositions have been added; and there is a considerable collection of…

This textbook covers the first six books of the elements of Euclid, the 11th and 12th books, and the book of Euclid's data. Elements of plane and spherical trigonometry are included.

This textbook covers geometry and trigonometry with addition of a fuller explanation of rectangular surveying, as well as a more particular explanation of the use of natural sines. The book's primary goal is teaching common field surveying. This edition adds practical matter, as well as the only table of natural tangents ever published in this…

This textbook presents a course in surveying. A variety of problems are introduced, adapted to the cases most likely to occur in practice. Background in algebra and geometry are recommended.

This textbook covers geometry and trigonometry and presents problems for student consideration. Geometry principles are applied to surface and solid measurement. Tables of logarithms and logarithmic sines are included. [This book was translated from the French of A. M. Legendre. It was revised and abridged by Charles Davies.]

This textbook covers geometry and trigonometry and presents problems for student consideration. Contents include geometry, plane trigonometry, analytical trigonometry, spherical trigonometry, and mensuration. [This book was adapted by Charles Davies.]

This textbook presents principles, ratios and proportions, the circle and measurement of angles, the proportions of figures and the measurement of areas, regular polygons and measurement of the circle, planes and solid angles, polyhedrons, the three round bodies, spherical triangles and spherical polygons, regular polyhedrons, plane and spherical…

This work is chiefly a compilation from other books; and but very little new is added except a more full explanation, than has yet been published, of rectangular surveying, or the method of calculating the area of fields arithmetically, without drawing a plot of them and measuring with a scale and dividers, as has been the common practice; and…

This textbook presents principles, ratios and proportions, the circle and measurement of angles, regular polygons and measurement of the circle, planes and solid angles, polyhedrons, the three round bodies, plane and spherical trigonometry, and mensuration. [This book was translated by David Brewster. It was revised and adapted by Charles Davies.]

This textbook presents principles, ratios and proportions, the circle and measurement of angles, regular polygons and measurement of the circle, planes and solid angles, polyhedrons, the three round bodies, plane and spherical trigonometry, and mensuration. [This book was translated by David Brewster. It was revised and adapted by Charles Davies.]

This publication, with alterations and amendments, has been adapted to the use of American surveyors. The first section discusses decimal fractions, the square root, geometrical definitions, theorems and problems, and logarithm numbers, signs, and tangents. The second section contains plane trigonometry right angled and oblique, with its…