geometry in the real world
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Geometry in the Real WORLD
By: Dylan Herbert Littlejohn
Of your fourth period
On A-days
Point
• The base is a point• Names a location,
has no size
Line
• The foul line is a line• Straight path with no
thickness, extends forever
Plane
• The baseball diamond is a plane
• Flat surface that extends forever and has no thickness
Angle
• From second to third to home forms an angle
• Figure formed by two rays with a common endpoint
Perpendicular Lines
• From third to first and then second to home form perpendicular lines
• Lines intersecting at 90 degrees
Parallel Lines
• From third to second then home to first form parallel lines
• Lines in the same plane that do not intersect
Triangle
• From foul pole to foul pole to second and second to foul pole form a triangle
• Three sided polygon
Right Triangle
• From second to first to home and home to second form a right triangle
• Triangle with one right angle
Pentagon
• Home plate is a pentagon
• Five sided polygon
Hexagon
• From foul pole to third to home to first to second to foul pole and back to the original foul pole form a hexagon
• Six sided polygon
Square
• The baseball diamond forms a square
• Quadrilateral with four congruent sides and four right angles
Rectangle
• The dugout is a rectangle
Quadrilateral with four right Quadrilateral with four right anglesangles
Trapezoid
• From the front corner of visitor’s dugout to the front corner of home’s to back right of home’s to back left of visitor’s to the front corner forms a trapezoid
• Quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides
Parallelogram
• From the pitcher to field umpire to first baseman to second baseman forms a parallelogram
• A quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides
Circle
• The on deck circle is a circle
• Set of points in a plane that are a fixed difference from the point called the center of a circle
Cylinder
• Pine tar sticks are cylinders
• 3 dimensional figure with 2 parallel congruent circular bases and a curved lateral surface that connects the bases
Sphere
• A baseball is a sphere• Set of points in space
that are a fixed difference from a point called the center of a sphere
Decagon
• The star in Houston’s hat is a decagon
• Ten sided polygon
Arc
• The outfield fence is an arc
• Unbroken part of a circle consisting of two points on the circle, called the endpoints, and all the points on the circle between them
20-Gon
• A baseball player’s tooth is an example of a twenty-gon
• Twenty sided figure
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