GRADE FIVE: the required math elements

• Topics: Euclid, Books I & II, constructions, geometric algebra option; topics from the history of math in Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, and Megalithic Western Europe; Pythagorean triangles and triples.
• Activities: graphical solutions for problems; Chinese proof of the Pythagorean theorem.
• Suggested Integrated Projects (one required):
  1. Stonehenge and carved balls of Scotland.
  2. The Golden Ratio in the art and architecture of ancient Egypt.
  3. The monochord and the scales of Sumer with musical arithmetic.
  4. The rope-stretchers of Egypt and the orientation of temples.
  5. The squareness of the pyramids.
  6. The relations of Phi and Pi.
  7. Musical arithmetic of the Rig Veda.
  8. Binary arithmetic of the I Ching.