Triangle Basics
This is how many sides are on a triangle.
What is 3?
Cube, Tetrahedron, Octahedron, Icosahedron and Dodecahedron are the five fundamental 3D shapes of geometry.
What are platonic solids?
This is the ratio of the opposite side of a RIGHT triangle to its hypotenuse.
What is sine?
This is the angle measure that a triangle adds to be.
What is 180?
This group of people were threatened by irrational numbers such as the square root of 2 or the square root of 5.
Who are the Greeks?
This is the ratio of the adjacent side of a RIGHT triangle to its hypotenuse.
What is cosine?
90 degrees describes this kind of angle.
What is a right angle?
This famous mathematician's theorem states that the sum of the sides squared is equal to the length of the hypotenuse squared.
Who is Pythagoras?
This is the ratio of the opposite side of a RIGHT triangle to its adjacent side.
What is tangent?
When the sides of a triangle are the same length and the angles are all the same measure.
What are congruent triangles?
This famous mathematician is known for having said "Eureka!" while contemplating the weight of gold in the bathtub.
Who is Archimedes?
tan(45).
What is 1?
Triangles that have the same shape, but may have different sizes.
What are similar triangles?
This famous thinker put forth the idea that the sun is at the center of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
The cos(90).
What is 0?