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This is the unproject where we can do anything we want. We chose to make a video explaining Pythagoras and Square Roots. The formula for Pythagoras is a squared + b squared = c squared. A and B represent the "legs" of the triangle and C represents the way across. If we fill in what we know for a and b or even c then we can find out what the missing side is. There are Pythagorean triples which are simply when 2 squared numbers add up to another squared number. Square Roots Square roots are numbers that multiply themselves to equal another number. It could we harder to find the square root of 5123 without a calculator, but there's something that we learned from Mr. Harbeck called the "mullet" stratagey. Basically the smaller perfect square is the smaller square, and the next perfect square is the "mullet" and then we put where our number is. The left over from the number becomes the numerator and the difference of the smaller perfect square and the larger perfect square becomes the denominator. Also the perfect squares that we talked about earlier have to do with square roots, because they're just numbers that are integers after you find the square root and there arn't any decimals or anything. Pythagoras and Sqaure Roots go together ! Here are some examples to help you understand this better because with plain words like that no ones ever going to understand, so we're gonna take our old work and use it to help explain.

http://spmath816.blogspot.com/2008/03/nathaniels-third-growing-post.html http://spmath816.blogspot.com/2008/03/pythagoras-growing-post_24.html http://spmath816.blogspot.com/2008/03/davids-third-growing-post.html

all three of these growing posts have stuff about pythagoras and explains how to do certain things with pythagoras. Each one of those has a little bit about square roots too.

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