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Investigating pi.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- KS3 maths
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Study and teaching--Great Britain.
- Mathematics.
- Mathematics--Study and teaching--Activity programs.
- Genre:
- Instructional television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (14 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Teachers TV/UK Department of Education, 2005.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Wendy, our Mathagony Aunt, introduces a technique used to estimate the value of pi by throwing 20 sticks onto the pavement. This strange experiment was first performed by the French naturalist George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1777. Pupils at Vyners school in Hillingdon investigate this experiment. As well as trying out a scaled down version of Buffon's experiment, teacher Steve Imisson demonstrates the polygon method for estimating pi, which is more obviously related to circles.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012).
- OCLC:
- 815783152
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