Maths Workshop

INDEX
 

Introduction

Aims

Geometry and a game of billiards

GEOMETRY AND A GAME OF BILLIARDS 

INTRODUCTION

- Let's play billiards, but no fancy stuff. This is maths.

- What?

- Use your imagination.

- ...

- The points where the ball hits the cushion form straight lines which go through certain points....

- Geometry?

 

This unit is purely theoretical. It probably won't turn you into a billiards champion but you will see the game in a different light.

AIMS
  • To investigate by playing.
  • To use certain mathematical knowledge such as finding the reflection of a point about a straight line, a straight line which passes through two points, the point where two lines intersect and the distance between two points.
  • To generalize a problem.

  Andrés Mateos Royo
 
Spanish Ministry of Education. Year 2001
 
 

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