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Showing posts with label cones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cones. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Conic Sections
Here is Miles. He was a bad dog today, so he had to wear a dunce cap. His dunce cap is a cone. Can you think of cones that you see in your everyday life?
Cones are conic sections. A conic section is a curve that is made when a plane intersects a cone. Other conic sections are circles, ellipses, hyperbola, and parabolas. You will learn more about them in geometry.
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