You’ve been doing Pythagoras wrong your whole life!
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Some special right-angled triangles allow for a different application of Pythagoras' Theorem.
Can you prove why?
21 February 2021 Edit: 21 February 2021
- 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)
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Graham Rees on 23 February 21 at 02:38 PM #
Mind. Blown.