What's a logarithm?
Questions
1. Who is credited with their invention?
2. What's a slide rule?
3. What's a logaric table?
4. What's logarithm used for?
Internet Resources
Basic idea of logarithm
Who is credited...
Slide Rule is...
Logaric table is...
Activities
1. Explain Napiers' Bones.
2. Create a set of "Napier's Bones" to demonstrate their use to the class.
3. Explain to the class how to use the table in calculations.
4. Research and describe logarithms. Put your answer in a paragraph.
5. Explain some applications that work with logarithms.
Some More Internet Resources
Treasures - Napiers Bones (c1690)
Judith Grady, Teacher, and Gary Ho, AP student, collaborated to develop this web hunt.