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GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY I.
X, Y, AND WHAT AXIS?
1. If there were an z axis, what do you think
it would measure?
CONTINUOUS AND CONNECTED?
2. Continuous lines or curves are ones that have
no brakes between points on the line or curve. If the
Ninja did not have continuity to its track, what
would happen?
3. If you look around the sides of the park, you
will notice that the park has fences surrounding
it on all sides. If the whole surface of the park
were set on a geometric plane, what would the
fences be called in a geometric sense?
"The fences are the __________(s) of the park."
Are there regions of the park not open to the public?
If your answer to the last question is yes, can you find
several regions that are not connected? Use
a map with labels and colors when you write your answer.
N-GONS???
4. The Pentagon is a building in Washington,
D.C. that has five sides to it. A stop sign
is an octagon because it has eight sides.
By counting the sides of an object you can
see what size n-gon it is, that is, how many
sides it has. Using careful observation,
how many sides does the Colussus wheel have?
(You may have noticed that the outside of the
Ferris wheel is round. Simply, use the n-gon
just inside of that to count sides.
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William V. Thayer, Mathematics Department, St. Louis Community College at Meramec,
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