{"id":1609,"date":"2013-10-26T21:25:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-26T21:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theglobalschool.net\/maths\/?page_id=1609"},"modified":"2013-10-26T21:25:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T21:25:48","slug":"grj","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/maths.crusoecollege.vic.edu.au\/grj\/","title":{"rendered":"Geometric Reasoning: Level J"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Problem solving with similar triangles<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Similar triangles - measuring the goal posts\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/82358722?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"580\" height=\"379\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Similar triangles - Cross the road\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/82359357?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"580\" height=\"433\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Use similar triangles to calculate the size of things<\/h4>\n<p>As with the examples given (goal posts and road), choose large objects around the school, measure lengths to calculate &#8216;unmeasurable&#8217; lengths or heights.<\/p>\n<h4>Bonus Task: Diameter of the Sun<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/maths.crusoecollege.vic.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/similar-figures-diameter-of-the-sun.pdf\">Finding the Diameter of the Sun<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Use similar figures to measure the diameter of the sun. Needs to be done on a sunny day. Make sure you don&#8217;t look directly at the sun!<\/p>\n<h3>Explanation of Similar Triangles<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Geometric Reasoning J\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/77873626?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem solving with similar triangles Use similar triangles to calculate the size of things As with the examples given (goal posts and road), choose large objects around the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maths.crusoecollege.vic.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maths.crusoecollege.vic.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maths.crusoecollege.vic.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maths.crusoecollege.vic.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maths.crusoecollege.vic.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/maths.crusoecollege.vic.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maths.crusoecollege.vic.edu.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}