Activity Sheet Pythagorean
Activity Sheet Pythagorean
PYTHAGORAS’ THEOREM
Activity #1
Can you make a triangle with these sides: 6 units, 6 units, and 12 units?
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Try the same experiment with these lengths: 4, 5, and 12; 6, 7, and 12
Why some measurements were unable to form triangles while some weren’t?
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Activity #2
Using the gird below, can you make a right-angled triangle with sides of 3, 3, and 5 units?
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Can right-angled triangles be made from these combinations: 3, 4, 5; 6, 8, 10; 5, 12, 13.)
Activity #3
What do you notice about the way the squares on the sides are related to the squares on the
hypotenuse for each triangle?
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Do you think this is the same for all right triangle? Justify your answer
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Based on your observation what generalization can be made about the relationship between the
sides of a right triangle and its hypotenuse?
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