A Pythagoras investigation using GeoGebra
One day, I was playing around with GeoGebra and wanted to create a file which visually demonstrated the workings of Pythagoras’ Theorem. I had junior high school students in mind. I wanted the file to cause students to respond with “OK, now I see that the sum of the two smaller areas is equal to the larger area is true." The first file I created was the file dynamically represented below. NOTE: This is different to the one above – in accordance with the theorem it contained only squares on the three sides of the triangle. Read more ... |
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