Posts Tagged ‘Ellipse’
April 9, 2013
Maths-is-Awesome Activity
Ellipsoid Collipsoid
Skill: Geometry, scale, ratio, conic sections, ellipses, parabolas, hyperbolas and more.
Level: Senior School
Senior maths students are busy, mathspiggies. But insipration energises.
Mathspig was amaaaaaazed by these cardboard models were made by Martin Schilling because he made them in 1901. This was long before computers made the job easier. More info here.This is what a car looked like in 1901.
If Martin Schilling could make these Conic Sections, so can any senior student. You will find Conic Section diagrams and equations here.
Could you do this mathspiggies?
Make a conic section in 3D?
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