World Around You
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Math Muse by Claudia Pagliaro and Laura Blackburn

Perspective: It's all in how you look at it.
model

Pretend the structure above is a group of buildings.

  1. You are in an airplane flying directly over the structure and looking down at it. What does the structure look like from directly above? Draw what you would see on graph paper?
  2. Your plane lands on the right side of the buildings and you look out of the window. Now what does the structure look like as you view it from the right side? Draw what you would see on graph paper.
  3. If each square on your graph paper equals 1cm2, what is the area of each of your figures?
First students to send in the correct answer will:
  • Get their names and their solutions printed in World Around You.
  • Win a Math Wizard certificate.
  • Win a free subscription to World Around You for themselves and their teachers for the 1998-1999 school year.
Send you answer to: Laura Blackburn, NIU, Graham Hall, Dekalb, IL 60115; lblackburn@niu.edu

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