Term 3 Week 8

Apologies for the delay here - between year 8 and year 9 camps and some time off with the flu there has not been a lot of action on this blog.

The topic we are completing is Pythagoras.

Students will have covered this before, however it is very important to be able to use Pythagoras' theorem quickly and effectively.

As we all know Pythogoras was the first to prove the relationship between the lengths of the two short sides of a right angle triangle and the long side:

h² = a² + b²

Which literaly means that if you draw a square on each side of the triangle the two small squares add up to the size of the big square.

Very useful!

Using this formula we can calculate any side of the triangle if we know the other two sides. We only need to be careful to check whether we are finding the long side (hypotenuse) or a short side.

Pythagoras Assignment 1 is here