GRADE NINE: the required elements

Amended math bold for AY 2001-2002
  • Topics:
    • Perspective
    • Conics
    • Trigonometry
    • Logic
  • Suggested Integrative Projects (one required):
    • Conics from Apollonius to Durer
    • Galileo and the pendulum clock
    • Vicenzo, equal temperament, the 12th root of 2
    • Marin Mersenne and musical arithmetic
    • Newton: will Halley's Comet destroy us?
    • Cartography, Mercator, etc.
    • John Dee, the Sidney circle, the Royal Society
    • Double entry bookeeping, John Recorde, logarithms
    • Cartesian coordinates and the notations of algebra
    • Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum and the Platonic Solids
Revd 12 Dec 2000 by William Irwin Thompson
Amended 20 August 2001 by Ralph Abraham