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Geometry Playground - Activity: Families of Lines

Author(s): 
Daniel Heath (Pacific Lutheran University) and Joshua Jacobs (University of Washington)

This activity explores the idea of trying to create coordinate systems similar to Cartesian coordinates in Spherical and Hyperbolic geometries.  The authors would like to thank Elly Claus-McGahan, who contributed this activity.

Click here to open the Geometry Playground applet in a new window.

Click here to open a pdf file which contains the instructions for the activity.

Daniel Heath (Pacific Lutheran University) and Joshua Jacobs (University of Washington), "Geometry Playground - Activity: Families of Lines," Convergence (November 2010), DOI:10.4169/loci003567