Students in Miss Faro’s mathematics classes at the Carl H. Kumpf School in Clark are learning about scale drawings and similar figures. As a class, they have investigated many maps to find the ...

Solving arithmetic problems, even simple subtractions, involves mental representations whose influence remains to be clarified. Visualizing these representations would enable us to better understand ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A scale drawing shows a real object, with accurate proportions, reduced or enlarged by a certain amount ...

A scale drawing of a bridge has the same shape as the real bridge that it represents but a different size. Scale drawings close scale drawingAn accurate drawing, or model, of a representation of a ...

THE appearance of a useful little book by Prof. Gibson may be made the occasion of emphasising the import ance of drawing in mathematics, whether pure or applied, especially as the University of ...

This department contains reviews of books, products, and software. Journal Information Teaching Children Mathematics (TCM) is an official journal of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and ...

For the past decade, Simon Beck has been decorating the Alps with his stunning mathematical drawings, created by running in snowshoes across freshly laid snow. Each image takes him up to 11 hours to ...