Kürschák's Tile

A beautiful construction by Josef Kurschak, connected to his visual proof that the area of the this dodecagon is 3 times the circumradius. What questions does it raise? Read about the tile at MathWorld: [url]http://mathworld.wolfram.com/KurschaksTile.html[/url] Read about Kurschak at Wikipedia: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef_K%C3%BCrsch%C3%A1k[/url]

 

John Golden

 
Resource Type
Activity
Tags
dodecagon  kurschak  questioning 
Target Group (Age)
15 – 18
Language
English (United States)
 
 
GeoGebra version
4.2
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