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Team Project: Resource Based Learning



Introduction
Our Team's Topic is: Surprise Group members: Daniel, Jonathan, Izabella and Audrey Our Team's first type of resource is: Direct Investigation Our Team's second type of resource is: Internet and The Book of numbers The book was a reference on the wikipedia article

Task
Our task: To investigate and find a formula for how many regions there will be in a circle when there are n points.

__Direct Investigation__ - [|Surprise!.doc]

__Drawing the circles__ - [|Circle segments.doc]

__Recording the results__ - [|worksheet.xls]

Resources
Wikipedia Contributers, Dividing a Circle into Areas - Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividing_a_circle_into_areas, 15 February, 2008.

//See// Dr. Anthony, //Math Forum- Ask Dr. Math//, http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55262.html. (as of Feb. 28, 2008)

[|Conway, J. H.] and [|Guy, R. K.] "How Many Regions." In //The Book of Numbers//. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 76-79, 1996.

Delegated Tasks
Green Thinking Blue Thinking Red Thinking Yellow Thinking