median
don steward
mathematics teaching 10 ~ 16

Sunday 18 March 2012

jumping

this could be a construction question but is probably better (more accurately) done with a computer

start with any three points









start anywhere and jump ('leapfrog') over A - the same distance the other side of it (i.e. reflect in the point  'Geogebra' enables you to do this)










then, from where you end up, jump over B










and then C










keep on jumping, over A then B then C
what happens?

James Tanton explains what happens with this problem, using (kind of) vectors

how can you return to the start after just one 'cycle' - set of three jumps?


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