GRADE FIVE: the required math elements

Revised math bold for AY 2001-2002
  • Topics:
    • Euclid, Books I & II, constructions only
    • 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):
    • Stonehenge and carved balls of Scotland
    • The Golden Ratio in the art and architecture of ancient Egypt
    • The monochord and the scales of Sumer with musical arithmetic
    • The rope-stretchers of Egypt and the orientation of temples
    • The squareness of the pyramids
    • The relations of Phi and Pi
    • Musical arithmetic of the Rig Veda
    • Binary arithmetic of the I Ching
Math bold revised 06 April, 2001 by William Irwin Thompson
Revised 20 August 2001 by Ralph Abraham