Pythagoras Goes High Tech
| State | WV |    |
| Status | Ready for Users | |
| Stage | Public | |
| Subject | English/Language Arts Mathematics Social Studies | |
| Author | Dianne Smith
Donna Pittman Teresa Lester | |
| Description | The five-lesson interdisciplinary unit engages students in
a variety of activites that lead them to the Pythagorean Theorem and provide them an opportunity to apply the theorem. Students write conjectures, summarize material, express conclusions in sentence form, research the development of the theorem and compose an informative paragraph. The computer is utilized to access sites containing interactive Java Sketchpad activities and download a program for the graphing calculator. Students use Excel to create a spreadsheet to verify Pythagorean triples. | |
| The 21st Century Tools | computers
Internet graphing calulators speadsheet skills word processing calculators | |
| Grade Level | 7 8 9 10 | |
| National Standards | Mathematics:
1. Uses a variety of strategies in problem solving process 2. Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of the concepts of geometry 3. Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of functions and algebra Engligh/Language Arts: 1. Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process 2. Uses grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions World History: 1. Understands technological and cultural innovation and change | |
| Career Clusters | Engineering and Technical | |
| Keywords | hypotenuse
Pythagorean Theorem square root distance formula Pythagorean triples | |
| Lesson Plan URLs (new Window) | Lesson1: The Pythagorean Theorem
Lesson2: Pythagorean Triples Lesson3: Special Right Triangles Lesson4: The Distance Formula Lesson5: Applications of The Pythagorean Theorem | |
| References | Glencoe Algebra 1 Integration, Applications, Connections.
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill; New York, New York, 1998. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/proof/puzzle/theorem.html http://exploremath.com/activities/activity_list.cfm?categoryID=4 | |
| English IGO or CSO | 7.57, 8.49, 9.47 | |
| Math IGO or CSO | 7.15, 7.18, 7.20, 7.23, 7.25, 7.40, 7.47, 7.49, 8.14, 8.15, 8.18, 8.36, 8.4, 8.54, 8.57, AM1.5, AM1.6, AM1.7, AM1.9, AM1.10, AM1.14, AM1.15, Al.1, Al.2, Al.4, Al.5, Al.18, Al.20, Al.21, G.12, G.17, G.23, G.24 | |
| Social Studies IGO or CSO | 6.41, 7.51, 10.38 | |