What was up with Pythagoras?
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Pythagoras had a problem with beans and irrationality. What really happened? I don’t know! The square root of two is irrational, and beans are delicious.
13 June 2012 Edit: 9 November 2017
- Topics:
- Measurement, Pythagoras
- The Australian Curriculum
- Measurement and Geometry, Pythagoras and trigonometry, ACMMG222 Year 9 Investigate Pythagoras’ Theorem and its application to solving simple problems
- The Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 New
- Year 8, Measurement Year 8, AC9M8M06 use Pythagoras’ theorem to solve problems involving the side lengths of right-angled triang
- NSW Mathematics K-10 Syllabus
- Measurement and Geometry, MA4-16MG Right-Angled Triangles (Pythagoras)
- NSW Curriculum New
- Measurement and space, Pythagoras and trigonometry, MA4-PYT-C-01 Right-angled triangles (Pythagoras’ theorem)
- NSW Mathematics Standard Stage 6 Syllabus
- Measurement, MS-M1 Applications of Measurement, MS-M1.2 Perimeter, area and volume, MS-M3 Right-angled Triangles
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