Useful geometric formulas

Geometry, Humor 1 Minute
Source: https://xkcd.com/2509/

Geometry textbooks always try to trick you by adding decorative stripes and dotted lines.

If you’re having trouble getting the formulas behind the joke, please see https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2509:_Useful_Geometry_Formulas.

Published by John Quintanilla

I'm a Professor of Mathematics and a University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of North Texas. For eight years, I was co-director of Teach North Texas, UNT's program for preparing secondary teachers of mathematics and science.

Published

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.