The Lost Math Lessons

As a high school math teacher, I often run across or develop math ideas that are not taught in a typical math curriculum. Here are some of those ideas.

Showing posts with label sides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sides. Show all posts
Friday, March 31, 2017

Triangles Inscribed in Rectangles

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When a triangle is inscribed in a rectangle, the vertices of that triangle are on the sides or vertices of that rectangle.  Sometimes when ...
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Saturday, October 22, 2016

SSA Congruence for Obtuse Triangles

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In most Geometry classes, students are taught five different ways to prove two triangles congruent: SSS, SAS, ASA, AAS, and HL.  Each “S” s...
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Sunday, September 18, 2016

Pick’s Theorem

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Pick’s Theorem, first described by the Jewish-Austrian mathematician Georg Alexander Pick in 1899, finds the area of any polygon formed on ...
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