Polygon Road

What do you think this road might be like? Why?

Try to find other street or place names, perhaps near you, that use mathematical terms.

There are many famous squares in the world, such as the ones listed below. Pick some of them and see if you can use Google Maps to decide how ‘square’ they are. Can you put them in order of ‘squareness’?

Square	City	Country
Charles Square	Prague	Czech Republic
Elisabeth Square	Budapest	Hungary
Freedom Square	Kharkov	Ukraine
George Square	Glasgow	United Kingdom
Heroes’ Square	Budapest	Hungary
Parade Square	Warsaw	Poland
Piazza San Marco	Venice	Italy
Place de la Concorde	Paris	France
Place du Canada	Montreal	Canada
Plaza Mayor	Madrid	Spain
Rabin Square	Tel Aviv	Israel
Red Square	Moscow	Russia
Russell Square	Perth	Australia
St. Peter’s Square	Vatican City	Vatican
Syntagma Square	Athens	Greece
Tiananmen Square	Beijing	China
Trafalgar Square	London	United Kingdom
Union Square	San Francisco	United States
Victoria Square	Adelaide	Australia
Wenceslas Square	Prague	Czech Republic

Data taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_city_squares_by_size.

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