Menaechmus (380–320 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician, geometer and philosopher, who was known for his friendship with the renowned philosopher Plato and for his apparent discovery of conic sections and his solution to the then-long-standing problem of doubling the cube using the parabola and hyperbola.
INVERSE PROPORTION
Can we calculate the attraction between two people?
Key questions
What does it mean if we say quantities are inverse proportion?
Can we use informal methods to solve problems involving inverse proportion?
Can we construct formulae that describe inverse proportion?
Can we reprresent graphically quantities that are in inverse proportion?
Can we problem solve with quantities in inverse proportion?
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Multiplying Menace by Pam Calvert