Looking For Pythagoras - Day 6 Lesson

Looking For Pythagoras - Day 6 Lesson

Watch this video carefully.

Open Ended

Where does the blue liquid start at the beginning of the video?

Open Ended

When the circle is rotated 180 degrees (upside down), what happens to all the blue liquid?

On the next slide, you will be able to change the size of a right triangle.

• First, look at the areas of the three squares as they currently are.

• Do you notice anything about the three numbers?

• Now try moving the two orange points at the corners of the right triangle (try changing to new whole number areas first)

• How do the new sizes of the red and green squares affect the blue square?

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Multiple Choice

When you changed the area of the smaller square(s) by moving a point on the triangle, what happened to the area of the largest square?

• It changed in the same way (ex. both got bigger, both got smaller)

• It changed in a different way (one got bigger, one got smaller)

• It didn't change at all

Open Ended

While thinking about the water demo video and the website: What did you notice about the areas of the two smaller squares compared to the largest square?