This is part three of a three-part teacher's guide to an SMSG textbook designed to be used as a one-semester course for twelfth-grade students. This guide contains a teacher's commentary and answers to materials that can be used to supplement the regular course found in the first ten chapters of the text. (MK)

This is one in a series of manuals for teachers using SMSG high school supplementary materials. The pamphlet includes commentaries on the sections of the student's booklet, answers to the exercises, and sample test questions. Topics covered include definitions, parallel and perpendicular lines, distance formula, midpoint formula, linear equations,…

The 1959 Royaumont seminar "New Thinking in School Mathematics," having agreed on the need for modernization, recommended that a second group of experts work out detailed synopses of the entire subject matter of secondary school mathematics. This book is the report of the second seminar and contains the Dubrovnik Program which stimulated…

This book, photographically reproduced from its original 1942 edition, is an extended essay on one of the three problems of the ancients. The first chapter reduces the problem of trisecting an angle to the solution of a cubic equation, shows that straightedge and compasses constructions can only give lengths of a certain form, and then proves that…

Problems involving the generation and counting of isosceles triangles interior to a given isosceles triangle are described. (SD)

Describes how many of the geometrical and physical properties of the binary elastic collision of two particles can be represented by an isoceles trapezoid in the velocity space. (BB)

An activity is presented which involves making a stadia tube from a cardboard mailing tube and using it to measure horizontal and vertical distances using the properties of similar triangles. (MN)

The use of basis matrix methods to rotate axes is detailed. It is felt that persons who have need to rotate axes often will find that the matrix method saves considerable work. One drawback is that most students first learning to rotate axes will not yet have studied linear algebra. (MP)

Some ways of thinking and acting geometrically are described which are related to the approach used by ancient humans. The focus is on intuitive geometric imagery, an attempt to resurrect a way of describing possible viewpoints of geometry outside of those commonly accepted. (MP)

Activities designed to lead pupils through the process of using the basic measuring and drawing devices of geometry are presented and move to the discovery of several surprising generalizations about arbitrary triangles. (MP)

Describes an activity in which students observe a simple situation, explore conjectures, and generate conclusions from their exploration of the conjectures to develop the essential triangle-congruence theorems. Includes teacher's guide. (KHR)

Presents Heron's original geometric proof to his formula to calculate the area of a triangle. Attempts to improve on this proof by supplying a chain of reasoning that leads quickly from premises to the conclusion. (MDH)

Pythagorean triples appear in many areas of mathematics, and they are revealed yet again as one delves into a simple geometric problem.

A hexagon with each pair of opposite sides parallel to a side of a triangle will be called a hexaparagon for that triangle. One way to construct a hexaparagon for a given triangle ABC is to use as vertices the centroids P, Q, R, S, T, and U of the six non-overlapping sub-triangles formed by the three medians of triangle ABC. The perimeter of this…