Vocabulary
Legs of a triangle
What are the sides of the triangle next to the right angle?
When one leg=3 and the hypotenuse=5 then the other leg=?
What is 4?
When one leg=3 and the other leg=4 then the hypotenuse=?
What is 5
A letter in the formula that stands for the length of one leg of a right triangle
What is "a" or "b"?
The figures on the sides of a right triangle we can use to help prove or understand the Pythagorean theorem
What is squares?
Hypotenuse of a triangle
What is the side of the triangle across from the right angle?
When one leg=6 and the hypotenuse=10 then the other leg=?
What is 8?
The letter in the formula that stands for the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle
What is "c?"
The only type of triangle you can use the Pythagorean theorem on.
What is a right triangle.
Formula of the Pythagorean Theorem
What is a2 + b2 = c2 ?
The symbol we use to represent multiplying a number by itself.
What is "n²" or exponent of 2
The spelling of the theorem we have been talking about.
What is p-y-t-h-a-g-o-r-e-a-n.
Pythagoras
What is the name of the mathematician who discovered the theorem we have been learning about?
The side that always has the longest length in a right triangle
What is the hypotenuse?
Construction workers are building a ramp. The ramp is 9 feet high and 12 feet long. This is the length of the slanted part of the ramp.
What is 15 feet?
Right Triangle
What is the only type of triangle that works with the Pythagorean Theorem. (Or a triangle with an angle measuring 90 degrees)
The operation we used to "get rid" of, or cancel something squared.
What is taking the square root?