Key to
Geometry
Angles
By Newton Hawley and Patrick Suppes
Revised by George Gearhart and Peter Rasmussen
Name ClassKEY TO GEGMETRY
Book 6: Angles
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Reproducing an angie. 3
Review. . nbbaepanpreceneenenos 7
Reproducing aWiiongle ve : sees
Review... : vn dS.
Comparing the Ses and Angies of Polygons 118
Reproducing a Polygon. :
Review .....
Doubling ond Tripling Angles fees 30
Constructing a Triangle with Sides Double those of a Given Trenale : 32
Review ...... fetter 38
Constructing a Triangle with Sides Half those of a Given Triangle +36
Review ...... ee ee
Constructing a Triangle Given the Sides 00.0000
REVIEW. occ ecccceceeveevesetesssattenr® acon 50
Practice Test........-cececreeeeeee ss
TO THE STUDENT:
These baoks will help you to discover for yourseit many important relationships of geometry. Your
tools will be the same os those used by the Greek mathematicians more than 2000 years ago.
These fois are a Compass and a straightedge. in adifion, you will need G sharpened pencil. The
Jessons tha} follow wil help you make crowings from which you may learn the most.
‘The answer Books show one way the pages may be completed correctly, It is possible that your
work is comect even though itis cifterent. if your answer differs, re-read the instructions to make sure
you followed them step by step, If you did. you oe prcbobly correct.
Hypatia taught mathematics ot the Greek universy in Alexandtio,
Faypl. 700 years after Euclid. Hypatio wos one of the universiy’s
most RopUlor lectures, and students come from Eutope, Asia ond
‘Alico to scy wi Det. She wrote On Ihe Canics of Appoionlus
‘book ebout the curves that con ba formed By siking a cane: the
Sicle:the eiiose, the paraboia, and the hypertoks By 490 AD. he
time of HyDatla, Roman ormies had conquered Greece and con.
tolled Alexanctia. The Romans ware very Hoste lowarcs Greeks and
Greek ideas. Dunng one outbreak of hostily, a. mab brulaly mur
ered Hypatio. Her death marked the end of he great oge ot Greek
gpomstty.
On ine cover cl his booklet Hypa sticies medals othe conic sec:
lors cn a boicony overlooking Alexondra’s harbor, (For more nfor-
mation about Hypatis ane other women in mathematics, soe Tet
Pes's book, Math Equals, Addison Wesley, 1978),
Cover art by Howard Coote
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pI keyress.comReproducing an Angle
Problem: Reproduce a given angle.
Solution:
1, Does the arc with center X have 2 radius congruent to that of the are
with center M?_
2. Draw an arc with center Y whose radius is congruent to segment NL
(Make it intersect the arc through Y.)
3. Label as Z the point in which the ares intersect.
4, Draw XZ.
5, Is angle ZXY congruent to angle LMN?
How do you know? _