Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Word Problem of the Week: Map the Ohio River

It's nice to see a little connection between geometry and geography.

From Graphic Algebra, by Andrew Wheeler Phillips and William Beebe, 1904

p. 8:
Draw a map of the Ohio River from the following latitudes and longitudes, which are reckoned from the Equator and the meridian of Washington respectively:
[table]

This is the earliest book I have seen that emphasizes graphing equations as an algebraic tool. Then, 80 years later, the graphing calculator is invented.

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