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Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring the Pythagorean Theorem

For Students 6th - 8th
This multimedia Learn Alberta math resource looks at the structural design of buildings and how the Pythagorean Theorem is often involved in the design process. The accompanying interactive component asks students to build a variety of...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Mc Dougal Littell Geometry: Converse of Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students can use the TI-84 Plus family with Cabri Jr. to determine if the converse of the Pythagorean Theorem is true.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem Using Transformations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will explore visual proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem using area and transformations. They will use the Cabri Jr. app to perform translations on the squares constructed on the two legs and the hypotenuse of a...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: The Pythagorean Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th
Get independent practice working with the Pythagorean Theorem. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Exploring the Pythagorean Theorem and Its Applications

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students discover the Pythagorean Theorem by exploring right triangles using Cabri Jr. They apply the Pythagorean Theorem to real-world problems. Also, students create a scatter plot of the data and find an equation that fits the data.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Applying the Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
students can use the Pythagorean Theorem and distance formula to determine unknown measurements.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: The Pythagorean Theorem and Classifying Triangles

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students can use the converse of the Pythagorean Theorem to predict a triangle's classification. The Cabri Jr. App on the TI-83+/84+ family will be used to create triangles and find their measurements. Adobe PDF lab worksheets are included.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Pythagorean Theorem Investigations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will gain an understanding of the Pythagorean theorem and will recognize the variety of ways in which theorems can be proved algebraically, geometrically and visually.
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Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Pythagorean Theorem (2)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A short interactive activity to visualize the Pythagorean Theorem.
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Oswego City School District

Regents Exam Prep Center: Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Who was Pythagoras and what is his theorem? Explore this concept and its relationship to the measurement of a right triangle in this test prep lesson plan. The lesson includes an interactive worksheet where learners discover the answers...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Catching the Perfect Sar Waves!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn the importance of the Pythagorean theorem as applied in radar imaging. They use a sensor unit with IRED (infrared emitting diode) to measure triangle distances and the Pythagorean theorem to calculate and verify distances....
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Government of Alberta

Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Square Roots Video

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This video illustrates the concepts of square roots, slope, and the Pythagorean Theorem as they are used in designing and constructing skate park rails, ramps, and pipes. An interactive activity is also included where students are able...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Science Today Scientists Go Below to Find

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, using the USA TODAY Infograph "Scientists go below to find," students will graph a city's location by using latitude and longitude coordinates. Students will determine the distance to travel between cities using a...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: From a Distance, You Can See It!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students find the distance between points using common fractions and decimals, with the concepts of midpoint and distance. They also learn to solve problems using the Pythagorean theorem.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Going Out of Business

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students use the Pythagorean theorem to compute the diagonals of rectangles.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Try Angle?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students investigate properties of triangles by randomly generating possible side lengths for triangles. They learn to determine if three line segments can form a triangle. They also learn to classify triangles as...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Real Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students learn to identify real numbers as rational numbers and irrational numbers. They review rational numbers as repeating decimals, and irrational numbers as non-repeating decimals. They also review commutative, associative,...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Clock Tower

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project resulted from the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher (pre-engineering), Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life...
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Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: El Teorema De Pitagoras

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Interactive resources and activities that could be used in the classroom either as an introduction or review to a unit dealing with the Pythagoras Theorem. [Requires Java.]
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Ministry of Education and Universities of the Region of Murcia (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion Y Ciencia: El Teorema De Pitagoras

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In Spanish. In this interactive activity you can learn and understand the concept of the Pythagoras theorem.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Pi Day

For Students 9th - 10th
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 in honor of the never-ending value of pi (3.1415926) The renowned museum, Exploratorium, presents a history of Pi and offers links to Pi-related activities.
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Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State Univ.: Trilingual Packaging Dilemma

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the Pennsylvania State University provides a hands-on activity to bridge the gap between right triangles, 30-60-90 and 45-45-90 theorems, and trigonometry, and what every student wants to know, "When will I ever use this?"...
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Ministry of Education and Employment of Spain

Red Escolar: Un Triangulo Sorprendente

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In Spanish. Different activities which involve the following concepts: right triangles, perpendicular lines, classification of triangles, area of a square and Pythagorean theorem.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Nctm Math Challenge Three Squares (Pdf)

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
If you think you can handle the Pythagorean Theorem, then this is a math challenge you should try. Explore geometric relationships and measurement in this one page activity from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families series.