Cedars Math:Chapter 8

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8.1 Points and Lines

• page 1 and page 2 of Jael's Homework 8.1, an example of how to show your work.

8.2 Angles

• Vertical Angle Theorem Handout

8.3 Squares

• Joyce's list of Euclid definitions, common notions, and postulates and Joyce's Euclid Proposition 1 of Book I and the 10-page handout with pictures of the 1570 book and with the translator's preface, and with the Plato-mentioning start of John Dee's article, and with John Dee's polemic against people who accuse him of witchcraft when he's just doing science, math, and engineering.

• Lunch theorems handout and the "Lunch Theorems" Substack article.

• Meno Theorem proofs and the dialog from Plato.

• Plutarch on Archimedes and Cicero on finding Archimedes' tomb

• The homework on square-measuring in units of square moyers

• Homework 8.3 example from Phoebe

8.4 Parallelograms

• Parallelogram area proof handout

8.5 Triangles

• Triangle proof handout

8.6 Circles

• Inscribing a right triangle in a circle handout

• Pi is between 2 and 4 handout

• Pi formulas handout

8.7 Volumes

• Mining photos
• Volume formulas

8.8 The Pythagorean Theorem

• Pythagorean Theorem Proof

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