• THE PROJECTMATHEMATICS TASK

By 13-year-old students (2nd year of Compulsory Secundary

Education)Learning about Turkish

mathematicians, their research and home towns.

He is considered to be the father of geometry and the first mathematician of geometry. He is one of the seven wisemen of Greece and the creator of the theorem named after him. THE THEOREM OF THALES. This theorem can be used to measure the height of pyramids using ´their shadows.

BORN IN MILETO, MODERN-DAY

TURKEY.ASTRONOMER

AND MATHEMATICIAN.

An interesting application to measure the the height of a tree. We measure the length of it́ s shadow at a certain time. = C We measure the length of the shadow of a small object. (for example, a pencil) at the same time. = B We measure the real length of the small object. = A AND WE APPLY THE FAMOUS THEOREM TO CALCULATE D.

MATEMATICO Y FILOSOFO

In 450 A.D. he was imprisoned for stating that the

sun was not a god, but only a red

rock. He also said that the moon was uninhabited land and received light from the sun.

While he was in prison, he tried

to solve the problem of the squarred cirlce. Using a ruler and a compass, he made a square with the same area as the one he had obtained from a circle.

BORN IN CLAZOMENE, 30 KM AWAY FROM

IZMIR.. MODERN-DAY TURKEY.

BORN IN PERGA, PANFILIA,

MODERN-DAY TURKEY

He was known as “The Great

Geometrician.” In his famous book, Conic Sections, he

introduced the following terms:PARABOLA,

ELLIPSE

HIPERBOLA

SPIRAL

We know that he

estimated pi to be

between

22/7<pi<223/71

ASTRONOMER AND

MATHEMATICIAN.

BORN IN NICEA.,

BITINIA, (MODERN-DAY

IZNIK TURKEY).

ASTRONOMER, GEOGRAPHER AND MATHEMATICIAN.

He was the first Greek to divide a circle

into 360 degrees of 60 minutes for

each degree.

He was the first mathematician to compile a triganometric table that

could be used to calculate any triangle.

Hiparco compiled his star catolog and

built the first globe.

ARAB WISEMAN, ASTRONOMER, DOCTOR AND

MATHEMATICIAN.

He tried to solve the second degree equation by using geometric. He

expanded the concepto of number to real positive numbers.

His most important

contribution to number

theory was a wonderful

theorum that enables us to find pairs of

number friends.

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HISTORY PROJECT: ROMAN TOWNS

By 16-year-old students (1st year of”Bachillerato” (Post Compulsory Education)

Learning about Roman towns in Turkey.

Roman Turkey

Roman towns in Turkey

Stages in Turkey’s history

Turkish/Spanish Currency

MATHS ACTIVITY FOR 12 –YEAR-OLD STUDENTS

• OBJECTIVE: TO GET TO KNOW THE TURKISH CURRENCY “the Turkish lira”

• The activity consisted of designing several wall charts where the Turkish currency appeared: the Turkish lira is the monetary unit, the notes are multiples and the coins divisors. When looking for information, we also found out the change from euros to Turkish liras. This has been a good way to practise multiplication and division with decimals.

• What attracted our attention was to discover that this year the name of your currency is being changed and also that in 2005 the currency was changed, the same that happened in Spain few years before.

• CURIOSITY: On the other hand, it seemed very curious to us the fact that the Turkish lira with Atatürk’s face looks like the two-euro coin with king Juan Carlos’ face.

Catholic Religion Project

Turkey’s Socioeconomic Structure

Compared with Spain’s

• DATA ABOUT:

• DEMOGRAPHY.

• HEALTH.

• EDUCATION.

• USE OF LANDS AND TERRITORIES

• COMMERCE.

• WOMEN.

• COMMUNICATIONS.

• ECONOMY