In January 2008, seventeen participants in the Montclair State University (MSU) GK–12 Fellows in the Middle Program visited China for two weeks. Our group included two mathematics graduate students, four science graduate students, two middle school mathematics teachers, one middle school science teacher, one superintendent, and six MSU mathematics and science faculty members. While in China, we visited several middle and high schools Munakatain Beijing and Xi'an and saw many historical and cultural sites. On our way to the Forbidden City along the Beijing highway known as Ring 3, we passed these three buildings, located at Xihuan Plaza (photograph 1), which seemed to be challenging passersby to describe them mathematically.