Triangle inequality

This applet is intended to encourage students to explore the relationship between segments of triangles and the areas of the squares built off of those segments. This is used as a discovery for the Triangle Inequality and Pythagorean Inequality Theorems. Yes, that may be a lot to cover at first glance. But with some structured data collection and analysis, both can be accomplished, either in one lesson or two.

 

andrew.tufts

 
Resource Type
Activity
Tags
pythagorean  pythagorean-converse  theorem  triangle-inequality 
Target Group (Age)
13 – 17
Language
English
 
 
GeoGebra version
5.0
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