The New Jersey Math Official Journal Published by the ASSOCIATION OF MATHEMATICS TEACHERS OF NEW JERSEY VOLUME XXXVII SPRING, 1980 i NUMBER 3ASSOCIATION OF MATHEMATICS TEACHERS OF NEW JERSEY BRUCE DE YOUNG, EDMUND BERRY. WILLIAM BRUTE! CAROL FEDORYK ROBERT GARFUNKI :DITORIAL BOARD Ramsey High School, Ramsey 07446 ee Caldwell High School West Caldwell ley School Oakland lie ve Se High Cranford ir State College, Upper Montclair RICHARD GLAHN .... «New Providence High School New Providence DOROTHY WOLFF... -+ ++ Caldwell College, Caldwell OFFICERS President Membership Chairman DAVID GLATZER RUTH KASELIS Weat Orange Public Schools Franklin Fligh School West Orange 07052 Somerset 08873 President-Elect NCTM Representative KENNETH WOLFF GLORIA SANOK Montelair State College Anthony Wayne Middle Scheot Upper Montelair 07043 Wayne 07470 Vice- Presidents ROBERT SHANKS Edison Public Schools Edison 08817 BEVERLY WHITTINGTON Bordentown Regional High School Bordentown 08505 THOMAS BUSCEMI Vineland High School Vineland 08360. Secretary RUTH MOONEY Hamilton Township Public Schools Trenton 08629 ‘Treasurer KATHLEEN KOPRESKL Vineland High School Vineland 08360 Retiring President J, MICHAEL, NUSPL, Pearl River School District Pearl River, NY. LO965 Members -at-Lorge ELLEN BROCKMANN (1 THOMAS PYRZYNSKI tL THOMAS TOBIASEN, (n FRANCIS. SARDELLA (1 JEFFREY KLE (1 BARBARA NUDING a CHRISTINE BLAKE (1 STEPHEN KRULIK qi FRANCIS MASAT a The object of this Association shall be to encourage an active interests in mathematical selenee, to afford.a medium of inerchange of views regarding the teaching of mathematics, and to further the cooperative study of problems relating to the teaching of mathematics Membership in this Association shall be open to persons who are engaged in teaching of mathematies In educaonal institutians public or private, oF who are interested In the teaching of mathematics. The annual dues of the Assaciation shall be: for all active members five dollars: for junior members ( stuctents) wa dollars Manuscripts for publication in ‘The New Jersey Mathematics Teacher should be typewritten, double-spaced with wide margins on 84" x11" paper. Two copies ured All diagrams and tables should be done in black or ted ink and be ready for photo reproduction Cover Dasign by Robert Manstield.THE NEW JERSEY MATHEMATICS TEACHER Volume XXXVI Spring, 1980 Number 3 Table of Contents The President's Page — David Glataer ....c0...cc00es Timely Mukiplication — Joyee Scalzitti AMTN4J High School Survey— Initial Results — Robert T:Shanks. Cultural Geometry — Eleanore Rudy oo. sccccccecuceevsetescveses Differentiating The Trigonometrie Functions — Another Ampeg — George P Evanovich ., 5 Predetermining The Mean and Standard Deviation; A Statistics Exereise — David R Dunean and Bonnie H. Litwiller .. Formula for Trisection Points of a Line Seinen — George J. Pawlikowski . Ayyadurat's Four Point Theorem — Shiva Ayyadurai {instructional Computing: A Statewide Survey — Joyce E A, Versteegh -L.imberg and Dr. David E. Boliver Corresponding Phrases — Kim Marchese ...00.0...6. 0.000 cscs eee A Report on the Third Annual New Jersey High Schoo! Mathematics Contest — Mary Dell Morrison . . 10 14AYYADURAL'S FOUR POINT THEOREM Shiva Ayyadurai Student Livingston High School Livingston, NJ. 07039 (In the course of an independent study project Shiva Ayyadurai, a Juniar at Livingston itigh School, became intorested in Ptalemy's ‘Theorem. He was at the time studying Vector Geometry and made an attempt te prove this theorem by vector methods, Shiva did not accomplish this yet but he did run across the following interesting result. -- Ed.) Ih the course of investigating Ptolemy's Theorem, I encountered a most interesting relationship. Ptolemy's Theorem states that in a cyclic quadrilateral, the gum of the products of the magnitudes of the opposite sides is equal to the product of the magnitudes of the diagonals. By using vector methods, I discovered that the Dot products of the diagonals is equal to the sum of the Dot preducts of the opposite sides; furthermore, this relationship is true for all quadrilaterals, and, more generally, it is applicable to any four points in space. A Dot product is a scalar quantity, obtained when two vectors are multiplied. Brook: In any quadrilateral, the sum of the Dot products of the opposite sides is equal to the Dot products of the diagonals. Refer te Fig. 1. AG = At + Fe oO = oF + oo Redd = (AP + ft). (PB + BO) A = AB oP GB ou Po - Pe ABGB a (AB = BB)+(BD - PC) 2 ABB - AB+Od - BEB + mb-PE BB = HB + PB i¢ = BE + Be RB-88 = (RE +PB)+ (BB + ve) 2 ABT 6 ABODE + OBBE + PREC Add the Dot products of AGU and ADVBe 1 ABC + ABei¢ a AP+PO + AB Bb + Bbepe + PB-PE = AB+(P + BB) + pee (HB + BD) = (AP + d)+(P6 + Bb) = ROG o BBG + abet = adead As I have stated before, this theorem is valid for any four points in Spaco. They can be collinear, coplanar, or non-coplanar. In fact, the points need not necessarily be distinct, 18Notes Figure 1 Point P may be selected anywhere in space, to prove the theorem. Since no restriction is placed on the other four points: A, B,C, D. This theorem is applicable to any four points in space. Aenean te ene ly