herons formula

Pushing the limits

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I’m still playing around with the ideas from going-one-step-beyond-herons-formula   And this time I looked at a more complex problem.  Overall the approach l...

More Heron’s Formula Extensions

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Continuing on the theme from the last post: going-one-step-beyond-herons-formula  here’s another problem showing the power of the full conceptual framework...

Heron’s Formula vs Trigonometry

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This random pedagogical thought occurred to me today: Both  Heron’s Formula and the Law of Cosines provide ways to find the area of a triangle with just its ...

Heron’s Formula

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The MathCounts guide for the year arrived today and I was looking over the problems. The following one caught my eye.