Pharaoh asked Thales what tools he used to measure the pyramids. Thales said he only used a stick and a ruler. He put the stick next to the pyramid. When the shadow of the stick was as long as the stick, he measured the length of the shadow of the pyramid and half the length of the bottom of the pyramid. Add these two lengths to get the height of the pyramid. Thales is really the smartest man in the world. He can easily measure the height of the pyramid without climbing to the top. ?
Interesting Math Story 2: During the Warring States Period, Qi Weiwang and General Tian Ji raced horses. Qi Weiwang and Tian Ji each had three good horses: mounted, won and dismounted. The race is divided into three times, and thousands of dollars are bet on each horse race. Because the horsepower of the two horses is almost the same, and Qi Weiwang's horse is better than Tian Ji's, most people think that Tian Ji will lose.
However, Tian Ji took the advice of his disciple Sun Bin (a famous strategist) and dismounted Qi Weiwang's horse, Ma Zhong of Qi Weiwang and Qi Weiwang. As a result, Tian Ji beat Qi Weiwang 2-/kloc-0-and won a lot of money. This is an example of China's ancient substitution game theory to solve problems.
Interesting math story 3: The animal school holds a children's song competition, and the elephant teacher is the referee.
The little monkey raised his hand first and began to recite: "I can calculate carry addition, and the digits can only be added if they are aligned." The number of digits should be aligned with the number of digits. When the number of digits exceeds ten, the number of digits should be advanced to ten. Add ten and one to count quickly and accurately. " ?
As soon as the little monkey finished speaking, the puppy began to recite again: "abdication and subtraction are not difficult, just align the numbers." If the single digits are small enough, ten people can borrow one. If ten people return, one will be ten, and if they return, one will be missing. How to reduce ten digits, ten digits will be reduced again and again. "
Everyone applauded their wonderful performance. Teacher Elephant said, "Their nursery rhymes make us understand that both carry addition and abdication subtraction should win the championship, ok?" Everyone agrees and applauds them.
From interesting math stories, children can not only learn knowledge, but also experience learning fun and use their brains actively in a pleasant atmosphere. ? Supplementary story: In the evening, I saw a difficult problem in the Olympiad Book: the number of apple trees in the orchard is three times that of pear trees. Master Lao Wang fertilizes 50 apple trees and 20 pear trees every day. A few days later, all the pear trees were fertilized, but the remaining 80 apple trees were not fertilized. Excuse me: How many apple trees and pear trees are there in the orchard?
I am not intimidated by this question, but it can stimulate my interest. I think the apple tree is three times as big as the pear tree. If two kinds of trees are to be fertilized on the same day, Master Lao Wang will fertilize "20×3" apple trees and 20 pear trees every day.
In fact, he only fertilizes 50 apple trees every day, which is 10, and the last 80 trees. Therefore, Master Lao Wang has been fertilizing for 8 days. 20 pear trees a day, 8 days is 160 pear trees. According to the first condition, there are 480 apple trees. This is to solve the problem with the idea of hypothesis, so I think the hypothesis method is really a good way to solve the problem.