You can build a model of the Great Pyramid, but first you need to scale it down. To do this, you will need to make the pyramid 3,000 times smaller than it really is! To achieve that, every 30 ...

This is key, given the Great Pyramid’s 2.3 million blocks, each weighing a lot. The engineering used was ahead of its time. It shows the ancient Egyptians’ advanced knowledge. Geometry was key ...

More than 2,300,000 limestone and granite blocks were pushed, pulled, and dragged into place on the Great Pyramid. The average weight of a block is about 2.3 metric tons (2.5 tons). How much is that?

Buildings from the period tend to emphasize form and geometry, qualities visible in the unbroken slant of the pyramid’s walls. And like the cathedral, critics initially reviled the pyramid’s ...

Mike Bunnell’s DC High School geometry students created dilations of a rectangle and suspended them from the ceiling to ...

The surface area of a pyramid can be calculated by adding the area of the base to the sum of the areas of the triangular faces. If the base of the pyramid is a regular polygon, each of the ...