Did You Know? – 03/31/2011

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Big Ideas Learning

You will find this fact and many more in the exciting Big Ideas Math series!

The Greek origin of the word ‘Geometry’ comes from GEO meaning ‘earth’ and
METRON meaning ‘measurement.’

3 thoughts on “Did You Know? – 03/31/2011”

Bill McMahon
March 31, 2011 at 9:00 pm

Cool. I look forward to more of these.
Dana Swope
April 2, 2011 at 12:17 am

omg that was cool! i’m trying to learn orgins…this helped.
Larry Dorf
April 4, 2011 at 9:04 pm

I”m always fascinated by word origins, especially in math!