Points of Concurrency
The point of concurrency for perpendicular bisectors.
What is the Circumcenter?
A line/ray that splits an angle into two congruent halves.
What is an Angle Bisector?
The name for three lines that all intersect at the same point.
What are Concurrent Lines?
An object that starts at a point and continues off in a direction.
What is a Ray?
The mathematician behind the Pythagorean Theorem.
Who is Pythagoras?
The point of concurrency for medians.
What is the Centroid?
A line that splits a segment into two congruent parts at a 90 degree angle.
What is a Perpendicular Bisector?
The location where three lines meet.
What is the Point of Concurrency?
The name for a triangle in which no sides are congruent.
What is a Scalene Triangle?
The course for terms like "Derivative", "Integral", "Difference Quotient".
What is Calculus?
The point of concurrency for angle bisectors.
What is the Incenter?
A line that begins at a vertex and ends at the midpoint of the opposite side.
What is a Median?
If two sides of a triangle are congruent, then the angles opposite to them are also congruent.
What is the Base Angle Theorem?
The name for a line that crosses through two parallel lines.
What is a Transversal?
Creator of the Cartesian coordinate system, and author of the phrase, "I think, therefore I am".
Who is Renee Descartes
The point of concurrency for altitudes
What is the Orthocenter?
A line from a vertex to the opposite side or a line containing the opposite side that meets at a 90 degree angle.
What is an Altitude?
If two angles are nonadjacent (opposite) in an intersection, then they are congruent.
What is the Vertical Angle Theorem?
Another name for a perpendicular slope.
What is the Opposite Reciprocal?
The father of Geometry- outlined all early geometry concepts in his book "Elements", circa 300 B.C.E
Who is Euclid?