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Finding side lengths of triangles
A series of tasks to help students understand the basics of the Pythagorean theorem, which describes the relationship between the side lengths of right-angled triangles.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 9
- Purpose
- Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Angles and geometric reasoning
- Audience
- Students
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9M9M03
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P7) Understanding units of measurement (P10) Proportional thinking (P7)
- Publisher
- Illustrative Mathematics
- Copyright
- © 2017-2019 by Open Up Resources. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
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