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Author Venters, Diana.

Title Mathematical quilts : no sewing required! / Diana Venters and Elaine Krajenke Ellison
Published Emeryville, CA : Key Curriculum Press, [1999]
©1999

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 MELB CRC  516 Ven/Mqn  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 168 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Contents The golden ratio quilts: 1. Fibonacci rabbits -- 2. The Fibonacci sequence ans Pascal's triangle -- 3. The Fibonacci sequence and polygonal numbers -- 6. Kepler's Fibonacci relationships -- 9. The golden rectangle and the golden ratio -- 13. Golden triangles and logarithmic spirals -- 15. Pentagons and the law of sines -- 16. Graphing calculator explorations -- 17. Internet explorations -- The spiral quilts: 1. Exploring the wheel of Theodorus -- 5. Polygons and spiraling squares -- 7. Logarithmic spirals -- The right triangle quilts: 1. Bhāskara's proof -- Pythagoras meets Fibonacci -- The tiling quilts: 1. Tessellating the plane with triangles and quadrilaterals -- 2. Polyomino families -- 3. Tetromino puzzles -- 4. Penrose tiles vertex nets -- 6. Life on the Poincaré plane -- 7. Escher-like tessellations
Notes Includes blackline masters
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 164)
Subject Geometry -- Study and teaching.
Mathematics.
Quilting -- Study and teaching.
Genre/Form Problems and exercises.
Problems and exercises.
Author Ellison, Elaine Krajenke.
Key Curriculum Press.
LC no. 00698029
ISBN 155953317X