Resumen de Raise high the ridge beam, carpenters

Lauren Matheson, Ron Lancaster (ed. lit.), Brigitte Bentele (ed. lit.)

• Students analyze a photograph to solve mathematical questions related to the images captured in the photograph. This month, the mathematics content includes slope, trigonometry through the law of cosines, and quadratic formulas as students analyze photographs of a triangular shed.

  This issue features the following images:

  http://www.nctm.org/eresources/images/MathLens1-1110.jpg http://www.nctm.org/eresources/images/MathLens2-1110.jpg http://www.nctm.org/eresources/images/MathLens3-1110.jpg