Author Archives: Passy

Similar Triangles Applications

Image Source: http://www.howitworksdaily.com A powerful Zoom lens for a 35mm camera can be very expensive, because it actually contains a number of highly precise glass lenses, which need to be moved by a tiny motor into very exact positions as … Continue reading

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Geometry in the Animal Kingdom

Image Source: http://scienceblogs.com The above photo is of the South African “Weaver Bird”. Weaver Birds are small bright colored yellow birds, which Passy saw first hand while taking a crocodiles tour at St Lucia. As their name suggests, they create … Continue reading

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Similar Triangles

Image Source: www.ebay.com Similar Triangles turn up in the strangest of places, even in Jewellery made from crystals of the gem stone “Tourmaline”. Images Sourced from Google Images In this lesson we look at the nature of similar figures, concentrating … Continue reading

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Congruent Triangles

Image Source: http://resources3.news.com.au Identical Twins have the exact same size and shape, and we instantly recognise that the two of them are exactly the same. When two items have the exact same size and shape, we say that they are … Continue reading

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Factorising With Common Factors

The answer to this question is quite simple: Image Copyright 2013 by Passy’s World of Mathematics Looking at the two photos, it is quite easy for a human to work out which person is in both pictures. But imagine the … Continue reading

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