Visualize a proof to the Pythagorean Theorem at the National Museum of Mathematics. This video focuses on modeling the concepts behind the Pythagorean Theorem with manipulatives. This video was submitted through the Innovation Math Challenge, a contest open to professional and nonprofessional producers.
Learn why the Pythagorean Theorem works for finding side lengths of right triangles. This video focuses on modeling what the Pythagorean theorem actually means and why it will find the missing side of a right triangle. This video was submitted through the Innovation Math Challenge, a contest open to professional and nonprofessional producers.
In this video, learn how to use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between two points on a coordinate grid. In the accompanying classroom activity, students apply what they learned in the video as they solve similar problems and discuss solution strategies. To get the most from this lesson, students should be comfortable using the Pythagorean Theorem to find an unknown side of a right triangle, graphing points on the coordinate plane, and finding the distance between points with the same x- or y- values.
