Created by Susan Wagner 06/23/2003
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Learning Goal: The learner will be able to identify geometric terms and identify geometric lines, symmetry, shapes, and angles. |
Geometry
Geometry is the study of shapes, angles, triangles, perimeter, area, and volume.
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The word geometry is Greek for geos - meaning earth and metron - meaning measure. Geometry was extremely important to ancient societies and was used for surveying, astronomy, navigation, and building. Geometry, as we know it is actually known as Euclidean geometry which was written well over 2000 years ago in Ancient Greece by Euclid, Pythagoras, Thales, Plato and Aristotle just to mention a few. |
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Plato's Academy depicted in a Roman mosaic
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