Eisco Garage Physics - Spiral of Theodorus Kit

Grades PreK and up.

Allows students of any age to experiment with square roots, irrational numbers, and triangular relations in physical form

• Young students can explore right triangles and ramps
• Elementary school students can learn about indirectly defined quantities, make Theodorus’ spiral and other related shapes, and explore the Pythagorean theorem and square roots
• Middle school students can test equivalencies with square roots and explore abstract concepts like a sequence of geometric shapes based on the Fibonacci numbers
• High school students can explore a proof of irrationality for non-square integer roots, a method for approximating square roots, and, using the Spiral of Theodorus, approximate the number p
• Includes 18 wooden triangles, labels, pen, and instruction guide segmented by age group