Grandpa's Dissection

A picture 'proof' of the Pythagorean Theorem. (Doesn't work in the general case.) Makes a nice puzzle, though! Shared at Alexander Bogomolny's Cut the Knot: [url]http://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/Proof99Solution.shtml[/url]

 

John Golden

 
Resource Type
Activity
Tags
exploration  puzzle  pythagorean  theorem 
Target Group (Age)
11 – 14
Language
English (United States)
 
 
 
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