Madaba, JordanFriday, January 17, 2014
So, it's almost time once again to do the "Broken Plate" project in my geometry class. It was lots of fun last year, and I hope this class will enjoy it, too. But all the potsherds around this place got me to thinking: I'm going to bring in some real potsherds and see if my students can't use their construction skills (for circumscribing triangles) to make some predictions about the sizes of these pots. I DO wonder how big they really were...The arcs are probably too small (percentage-wise) to get very accurate answers, but who knows!
