MathXplosion

Go Fly a Kite

Join Eric on a high flying mission. Unfurl the secret of symmetry used in kites to make them fly. It's not magic... it's math! The Educational Gist: The gist of this episode is that a kite in geometry looks a lot like a kite in the sky! We see that a kite is a special quadrilateral in which one of its two diagonals (long and short) is also its axis of symmetry and that if you fold the kite along that diagonal, the two halves will match up exactly (i.e., they are congruent).