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Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications

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High School

Latitude and Longitude

Author: Floyd Vest, Raymond Benge


The question of one's exact location on the face of the earth has intrigued humankind for thousands of years. Location can be given by latitude and longitude, which provide a spherical coordinate system for all points on the surface of the earth. Students see how latitude and longitude are determind, and how to calculate distances between known locations on the earth.

©1994 by COMAP, Inc.
Consortium 52
7 pages

Mathematics Topics:

Geometry , Precalculus & Trigonometry

Application Areas:

Engineering & Construction , Social Studies , Cartography, Navigation

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