Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association
Volume 30 Issue 2, April 1992
42 – 43
Cut-Throat: A Game Using Junior High School Geometry
Derek Gray and A. Craig Loewen
Cut-Throat is a game based on the application of angles in billiards and provides students with an opportunity to use angles in a practical and enjoyable context. This activity addresses many instructional methods and objectives of the mathematics curriculum, including the estimation, measurement and construction of angles of a given measure.
