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Year 10A: Pythagoras 3D

by Neale Woods

Objectives

ACMMG276 - Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry to solving three dimensional problems in right-angled triangles

Vocabulary

  • Diagonal
  • Hypotenuse
  • Pythagoras

About the Lesson

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Students are provided with an activity file that includes an interactive diagram of a three dimensional box. Each side (edge) of the box can be varied with the subsequent diagonal length displayed. Students compute the length of the diagonal to verify Pythagoras’s theorem in three dimensions.