Karen+&+Josephine

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Our project is about Pythagoras. Were going to talk about: - http://spmath817.blogspot.com/2008/03/josephines-pythagoras-growing-post.html - http://spmath817.blogspot.com/2008/03/karens-pythagoras-growing-post.html
 * The Elements of a Triangle
 * Pythagorean Theorem
 * Pythagorean Triple
 * How to Find the Missing a Leg and Hypotenuse
 * >> Links to our growing posts:

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In a right angle triangle there would be 2 legs and a hypotenuse. The square in the right angle triangle points to the hypotenuse, so you know which is the hypotenuse.



In many cases the right triangle will have its legs labelled A and B and the hypotenuse labelled C. The hypotenuse is always labelled **C** but **A** and **B** can be used to label either leg.






Since the area of the rectangle is a x b. The area of the triangle is ½ ( a x b). In many cases this will lead to our theorem.A Pythogorean theoreom is three unknown numbers: a, b and c. And they obey the following relationship a² + b² = c². A & B are both legs and C is the hypotenuse.
 * The Pythagorean Theorem a² + b² = c² can also be rearranged and written : c² - b² = a² or c² - a² =** **b²**

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A //Pythagorean triple// is a set of three positive whole numbers a, b, and c that are the lengths of the sides of a right triangle. For example **a² + b² = c²**

We put the put the squares together to make a right angle triangle in the middle.





This is showing how a²+ b² = c² or how 3² + 4² = 5²



Here its showing that the 4² covering the 5². When you look at it you can say that the formula your seeing is: 5² - 4² = 3² or c² - b² = a²

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<span style="COLOR: rgb(253,68,171)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(243,43,177)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(240,45,198)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 200%; COLOR: rgb(245,41,176)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 200%; COLOR: rgb(254,83,62)">Reflection Questions: = = <span style="FONT-SIZE: 150%; COLOR: rgb(248,211,84)">Josephine's Reflection Questions: • Why did you choose the concepts you did for your unproject? - Me and Karen chose to do the concept for our unpropect because we already knew a lot about this topic and we thought that it would be easy to explain the things we already know. • How do this project provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far? - I think our project provides an overview of what we learned because we put it in words parents and kids would understand (we put it in words kids like me could understand). We also used our growing posts, scribes and foldables to help put our project together. • Did you learn anything from this assignment? - Yes, I learned from this project. I leaned many things that i forgot over the year. For example i forgot what the pythagorean triple was but then when i looked back at all the work i did from my assignments then i remembered what it was. • Was it educationally valuable to you? (Be honest with this. If you got nothing out of this assignment then say that, but be specific about what you didn't like and offer a suggestion to improve it in the future.) - This project was educationally valuable to because it helped me review for exams and it also helped me refresh my memory about what we learned in the beginning of the year. I thought this project was a fun way to learn about math and also a fun way to show that you learned something over the course of the year. :)

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 150%; COLOR: rgb(248,211,84)">Karen's Reflection Questions: • Why did you choose the concepts you did for your unproject? -We chose this topic because we already had stuff about it..and we also had a foldable that we could use to put in our project. • How do this project provide an overview of your best mathematical understanding of what you have learned so far? - This helps us show our best mathematical understanding because were putting a lot of effort to making it really good, and were using stuff that help us make this project like our foldables and our growing posts and scribes. • Did you learn anything from this assignment? - From this assignment i learned many different programs and websites that i could use for the future..and websites that could make learning or fun! • Was it educationally valuable to you? (Be honest with this. If you got nothing out of this assignment then say that, but be specific about what you didn't like and offer a suggestion to improve it in the future.) -This was valuable because since exams was coming up, it helped me review for exams, but it was a funner better way. It was easier because you have all the instructions there for you and it really helps a lot for exams.

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