## Tuesday, January 31, 2012

### Sum of Vectors

This applet shows the graphical represenentation of the sum of two vectors. In the graph, u and v are vectors, and w = u + v. BD is the translation of AC and CD is the translation of AB. AD represents the sum of the vectors.
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## Friday, January 27, 2012

### Math and Multimedia Carnival will be hosted here

The Mathematics and Multimedia Carnival is on its 20th edition and will be hosted here.  If you have a blog post about school mathematics, mathematics teaching and learning, multimedia tools, or any related article, you may submit here or email me directly at mathandmultimedia@gmail.com.  The deadline of submissions is on February 18, 2012 and the post date is on February 20.

You may want to visit the following recent math carnivals:
To those who do not know what a carnival is, I have written a carnival primer in Math and Multimedia

## Wednesday, January 25, 2012

### Deriving the Equation of the Parabola

Instructions: Move point A to adjust the position of the vertical line and move F along the x-axis as desired. Move C along the line and observe what happens.
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Questions
1. What can you say about line a in relation to C and F?
2. Make a conjecture about segments PC and PF.
3.) Suppose P has coordinates (x,y), F has coordinates (2,0), and line d has equation x = 2, write the equation that would describe your conjecture in 2.
4.) Generalize the equation in 3 by changing the coordinates of F to (a,0) and line d has equation x = -d. Find the value of y.

## Friday, January 20, 2012

### Tangram Puzzle: Constructing a Square

Move the tangrams to construct a square. Drag the interior to change their position and use the 'blue point' on the vertex to rotate.
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## Tuesday, January 17, 2012

### Squaring a Convex Polygon

This applet constructs a triangle with an area equal to the area of any convex polygon ABCDEF. The applet Squaring a Triangle shows how any triangle can be transformed to a square with an equal area. The combination of these two constructions shows how to square any convex polygon.

• Click on point F.
• Drag F to the right as far as it can go.
• Repeat these two steps three times, until the triangle is constructed.
To repeat the construction,  press the "Reset" button or click again on the vertex F of the triangle.

Author:    The Ohio State University at Lima

## Monday, January 16, 2012

### Squaring a Triangle

This applet shows the construction of a square with the same area as a given triangle.
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Author: Irina Boyadzhiev of Ohio State University.

## Monday, January 9, 2012

### Area of Triangles Under a Curve

Given: Right triangle BCD whose hypotenuse is tangent to the function f(x) = a/x

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1. Move slider and observe what happens? How is the appearance of the graph relate to a?
2. Move point A and observe the triangle? What do you observe?
3. What conjecture can you make based on your observation in 2. Prove your conjecture.

## Thursday, January 5, 2012

### Equation of a Circle

Move sliders h, k, and r to form the desired circle.

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This applet shows that a circle can be determined given a center (h,k) and a radius r.

## Monday, January 2, 2012

### Routh's Theorem

Move ABC to determine the shape of a desired triangle and move the slider. What do you observe?
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The Routh's theorem determines the ratio of areas between a given triangle and a triangle formed by the intersection of three cevians. The theorem states that if in triangle ABC points DE, and F lie on segments BCCA, and AB, then writing $\tfrac{CD}{BD}$ x$\tfrac{AE}{CE}$ y, and $\tfrac{BF}{AF}$ z, the signed area of the triangle formed by the cevians ADBE, and CF is the area of triangle ABC times
$\frac{(xyz - 1)^2}{(xy + y + 1)(yz + z + 1)(zx + x + 1)}.$
This theorem was given by Edward John Routh on page 82 of his Treatise on Analytical Statics with Numerous Examples in 1896.

Source: Wikipedia