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Course, Subject

Algebra I (NYS P-12 Common Core), Geometry (NYS P-12 Common Core), Mathematics (NYS P-12 Common Core)

Virtual Manipulative

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Description

This interactive web-based resource helps students to visualize the Pythagorean Theorem. Students change the length of a side of a right triangle and, by doing so, they change the area of the squares adjoining each of the triangle's sides.

Content Provider

The Shodor Foundation is a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to the advancement of science and math education, specifically through the use of modeling and simulation technologies. For more information, please visit www.shodor.org.

Related Academic Standards

New York State

NY-8.G.7 Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths in right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems in two and three dimensions.

GEO.G.SRT.8 Use sine, cosine, tangent, the Pythagorean Theorem and properties of special right triangles to solve right triangles in applied problems. ★

8.G.7 Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine unknown side lengths in right triangles in real-world and mathematical problems in two and three dimensions.

G-SRT.8 Use trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to solve right triangles in applied problems.

MST3.7.G.6 Students explore the relationship between the lengths of the three sides of a right triangle to develop the Pythagorean Theorem.

MST3.7.G.8 Students use the Pythagorean Theorem to determine the unknown length of a side of a right triangle.

MST3.A1.A.45 Students determine the measure of a third side of a right triangle using the Pythagorean theorem, given the lengths of any two sides.