Vocabulary
What 3 letters do we use to label triangles
What is a, b and c?
The smallest and largest lengths of a triangle are 3 and 5. What is the length of the other side
What is 4?
The smallest and lengths of a triangle are 3 and 4. What is the length of the hypotenuse?
What is 5
Which letters do not matter how they are labelled
what is a & b?
The shape we can use to help prove or understand the Pythagorean theorem
What is square?
What is the side of the triangle across from the right angle? (*Side c)
Hypotenuse
The smallest and largest lengths of a triangle are 6 and 10. What is the length of the other side
What is 8?
The smallest and lengths of a triangle are 3 and 5. What is the length of the hypotenuse? (Calculator needed
What is the square root of 34 or 5.83
The only type of triangle you can use the pythagorean theorem on.
What is a right/right-angled triangle.
What is the formula for the Pythagorean Theorem?
What is a^2+b^2=c^2
The smallest and largest lengths of a triangle are 5 and 13. What is the length of the other side
What is 12?
The smallest and lengths of a triangle are 6 and 7. What is the length of the hypotenuse?
What is the square root of 85 or 9.22?
What do we call multiplying a number by itself?
squaring a number
The spelling of the theorem we have been talking about.
What is p-y-t-h-a-g-o-r-e-a-n.
What is the name of the guy who is given credit for discovering the theorem we have been learning about?
Pythagoras
The smallest and largest lengths of a triangle are 7 and 25. What is the length of the other side
What is 24?
The smallest and lengths of a triangle are 9 and 10. What is the length of the hypotenuse?
What is the square root of 181 or 13.45?
Construction workers are building a ramp. The ramp is 9 metres high and 12 metres long. This is the length of the slanted part of the ramp.
What is 15 metres?
What is the only type of triangle that works with the Pythagorean Theorem. (Or a triangle with an angle measuring 90 degrees)
Right Triangle
The smallest and largest lengths of a triangle are 21 and 35. What is the length of the other side
What is 28?
The smallest and lengths of a triangle are 15 and 22. What is the length of the hypotenuse?
What is the square root of 709 or 26.63?
Roofers need to know how long of a ladder they need. The roof is 16 feet high and the bottom of the ladder will be placed 12 feet from the building. What is the length of the ladder?
20 feet