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Annual Geometry Field Trips to
Home Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright |
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Nerinx Geometry students explored The Frank Lloyd Wright House at Ebsworth Park. The field trip included a movie about the history of the building and restoration of the house along with a docent-led tour. The polygons that we studied in Geometry - parallelograms, triangles, hexagons, rhombi and trapezoids - are evident in the architecture, the furniture and the stained glass in this house. There are only two structural right angles in the house because the floor plan is two intersecting parallelograms and all the angles in the house are 120 degrees and 60 degrees. The objective of this trip was to see what we were studying come to life. This is the sixth year that Mrs. Simcox has taken all of her Geometry classes to see this house. The cost of the field trip was paid for by a Target Field Trip Grant. Thank you, Target! |
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Award-Winning Mathematics |
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Nerinx Math Students in Missouri Math League |
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Nerinx girls in some of the calculus and precalculus honors classes annually participate in the Missouri Math League Contest. It is a series of six tests given at different times throughout the year, culminating with final placements announced in the spring. In April 2008 Nerinx placed 8th in the entire state for the 2007-2008 school year. This marked the first time Nerinx finished in the top ten, although there have been several times that it made the top twenty. Congratulations to the girls and to their teachers: Mrs. Henerey and Mr. Magee. |
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Mathematicians and the History of Mathematics |
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The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive |
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