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This lesson contains 20 slides, with interactive quiz and text slides.
Lesson duration is: 50 min
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Slide 1 - Mind map
Shorter sides & hypotenus
All right-angled triangles have 2 shorter sides and 1 hypotenuse.
The hypotenuse is the longest side and always lies opposite the right angle.
The shorter sides are (as the name suggests)
shorter than the hypotenus and always lie
on either side of the right angle.
Slide 2 - Slide
Exercise 2
2a) Which sides are the shorter sides
of triangle ABC?
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Exercise 2
2a) Which sides are the shorter sides
of triangle ABC?
AB and AC
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Exercise 2
2b) Calculate the area of square
ACHI and the area of square ADEB
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Exercise 2
2b) Calculate the area of square
ACHI and the area of square ADEB
area ACHI = 3 x 3 = 9
area ADEB = 4 x 4 = 16
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Exercise 2
2c) Calculate the area of square
BFGC by enclosing the square
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Exercise 2
2c) Calculate the area of square
BFGC by enclosing the square
Area BFGC = 25
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Exercise 2
2d) Add the areas of square ACHI
and square ADEB together.
What do you notice?
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Exercise 2
2d) Add the areas of square ACHI
and square ADEB together.
What do you notice?
9 + 16 = 25.
This is the same as the area of BFGC
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Exercise 2
2e) Calculate the lenght of BC
Area of the square is 25, so the
lenght of BC =
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Pythagoras' theorem
In exercise 3 you will find out that it is always true that if you put a square on each side of a right-angled triangle, the area of the smaller squares added up is the area of the biggest square. This is Pythagoras' theorem:
If a and b are the short sides of a right-angled triangle and if c is the hypothenuse, then:
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Calculating unknown sides
Using Pythagoras' Theorem, you can calculate
the 3rd side of a triangle, if you know the
lengths of the other two sides.
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Calculating unknown sides
We can use this scheme, to fill in everything
we know about the triangle.
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Calculating unknown sides
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Calculating unknown sides
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Calculating unknown sides
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Calculating unknown sides
so PR = 12
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Using Pythagoras' Theorem
When using Pythagoras' Theorem, you need to make sure:
- Your triangle is a right-angled triangle
- You know which sides are the short sides and which side is the hypotenuse, so you can add/subtract the correct squares.
Lesson duration is: 50 min
