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ERIC Number: EJ180058
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1978
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How Correct are Crock's Calculations?
Hughes, Barnabas
Mathematics Teacher, 71, 3, 195-7, Mar 78
The opportunity for students to develop formulas that involve tangent lines to a circle and the Pythagorean Theorem and to use approximation and common sense is provided in a suggested distance-to-horizon problem. (MN)
Descriptors: Computation, Geometry, Instruction, Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Secondary Education, Secondary School Mathematics
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Identifiers: Estimation (Mathematics); Pythagorean Theorem