Archimedes' method finds an approximation of pi by determining the length of the perimeter of a polygon inscribed within a circle (which is less than the circumference of the circle) and the perimeter ...

•3.1(A) - apply mathematics to problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace; •3.6(C) - determine the area of rectangles with whole number side lengths in problems using multiplication ...

David P. Robbins, a noted mathematician who tried in his dying months to solve a problem that had bothered him since he was a boy -- What is the area of a polygon if you know only the lengths of the ...

Around 250 B.C., the Greek mathematician Archimedes calculated the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. A precise determination of pi, as we know this ratio today, had long been of ...