Quadrilateral

Standards of Mathematical Practice 1. Attend to Precision. This center requires students to communicate precisely by using clear definitions in their reasoning for why they drew/wrote each shape. Students have to draw a shape that matches the attributes on the card. Therefore, the shape they select has to visually correlate to the attributes on the card, meaning the correct number of sides, faces, angles, etc. has to be correctly expressed. 2. Look for and express regularity in repeated…

Ptolemy was an ancient philosopher in Alexandria who lived from approximately 100 BCE to 170 CE. While Ptolemy is considered Greek in terms of ethnicity, he is also considered a “Hellenized Egyptian”(http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ptolemy) as he was born in Alexandria, Egypt. There is evidence suggesting that Ptolemy was granted Roman citizenship since his first name is Claudius, which is a Roman name. Many historians conclude that Ptolemy spent the entirety of his life in Alexandria.…

large, airy place, with a little spring and a pool of clear water, overhung with ferns. The floor was sand. Before a big fire lay Captain Smollett; and in a far corner, only duskily flickered over by the blaze, I beheld great heaps of coin and quadrilaterals built of bars of gold. That was Flint’s treasure that we had come so far to seek and that had cost already the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola”…

If you select any pair of points inside or on the boundary of the polygon, and join them with a line segment, that line segment will remain inside or on the boundary of the polygon; it will never cross the boundary and be outside the polygon. The final question asks you to consider what sort of effect the loosening of this restriction might have on your efforts. Below is a series of diagrams showing the ways in which the first few polygons may be triangulated. At the start of this task,…

The Ziggurat and the pyramids There are many similarities and differences between Ancient Egyptian Pyramids and Mesopotamian ziggurats. They both were held in high regards for their people cultures and religious beliefs. Ziggurats, a product of the Sumerian civilization, are stepped structures of large size that lead to a platform on top where spiritual/religious rituals took place.The pyramid that will be used in this paper is the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Ziggurat used will be the Great…

When comparing the human skeleton and the avian skeleton, there are many differences and similarities between the two. These differences and similarities are demonstrated very prominently in the shoulder girdle and the pelvic girdle. For example, in humans, the clavicle and the sternum articulate directly with each other, while in the avian skeleton, they do not. The clavicles in the human skeleton act as struts for the shoulder and allow the arm to move with the maximum range of movement by…

other examples (Blankenbehler). Another interesting aspect of the Pantheon is the dome. Architects had the dome coffered, which means that pieces of the dome's interior were carved out (Salgado). These hundreds of chunks of cement are layered quadrilaterals that greatly reduce the weight of the dome, but also make the dome appear much…

In Regards to As You Like It William Shakespeare is one of the most influential playwrights of all time; and his stories have been enjoyed by the masses since their conceptions. As You Like It, is an example of one of Shakespeare’s plays that has survived the ages and is still highly popular. The characters of this play and the changes they go through speak to generations of people. The situations that are forced upon them and the emotions they experience relate so closely to the journeys…

Movie, TV show, magazine, Internet and so on, everything you see from different media and different elements in these media such as the words, the images, the colors, the sounds, the angle of camera, are designed to make you think, sense and experience in a particular atmosphere (Beaton,2012). That is to say, artificial visual elements in different culture background could represent different meanings. Visual culture is to find out the connotation and denotation of them. Using a picture from an…

Basilica, Hagia Sophia was the largest domed building ever made. What made this achievement even more significant was that the building had a rectangular base. No one before Justinian had ever made such a large dome; never mind putting it on a quadrilateral base. For this alone Justinian deserves an award, but that is not all. Justinian had his architects make the dome stronger by inventing pendentives. Pendentives are the pieces that connect a circular dome to a rectangular base. This made the…