Mathematical Lens: Raise High the Ridge Beam, Carpenters
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During a walk around Toronto, Lauren Matheson noticed a shed being built in a very narrow corner of a triangular lot (see photographs 1, 2, and 3). The odd-shaped property made designing and building the shed difficult, but, thanks to a creative construction crew, the shed was built and by all accounts is well used. Lauren was then a preservice teacher candidate in Ron Lancaster's mathematics methods course, and he used images of the shed as the basis for his “Mathematical Lens” assignment. Lauren's photographs and questions are given here; the editors hope that readers agree that his work was worth an A+.