Problem of The Day

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Problem of The Day

• Construct another right triangle by using the
  hypotenuse of the given triangle for one of the
  legs and letting the other leg be of length 1.

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Problem of the Day

• Explain how you drew your right triangle.
• What is the length of the original triangles
  hypotenuse?
• What is the length of the new triangles
  hypotenuse?

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Answer to Problem of the Day
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What do all of the pictures have in common?
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Group Work
Work in Groups of 3 to construct a figure using
the right triangles.
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The Wheel of Theodorus

• The Wheel of Theodorus is named for its creator,
  Theodorus of Cyrene. Theodorus was a Pythagorean
  and one Platos teachers.

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The Wheel of Theodorus

• Finish Problem 5.1 individually and the follow
  up.

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Irrational Numbers on the number line
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ACE Questions

• Do the following problems 9-20 starting on page
  59.