Learning Paths
Each learning path is one chapter: a guided route through a topic, one small course at a time. Pick a class to see its chapters in order.
Chapter 6
The Cartesian Plane, Distance, Midpoint and Section Formulae
How does a map tell you exactly where a place is? How does a game know where a character stands on the screen? In both cases, two numbers fix a position. In this chapter we learn how two number lines make a plane, how to name and plot any point on it, and then how to find the distance between two points, the midpoint of a line and the point that divides a line in a given ratio. We use Python to plot points and to check our calculations.
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