Many congratulations to Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson for their brilliant new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. My hat is off to such impressive students and the learning environment created ...

We skipped algebra (pointless unless you want to go on teaching algebra to others) but not Pythagoras’ theorem as this is handy when working out field corners and sizes of blocks of land and how ...

The base of the isosceles triangle has been cut in half, so the base of the right-angled triangle is given a different letter, 𝒚. 𝒚 is half of 𝒙. Pythagoras’ theorem can then be used on ...

For over 2,000 years, Pythagoras’ theorem has stood as one of the cornerstones of mathematics. It states that in a right-angled triangle , the sum of the squares of the two shorter sides equals ...

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