Understanding different types of angles and that angles in a triangle sum to 180° can be helpful when classifying a triangle. Recognising line symmetry and rotational symmetry will also help. Look for ...
Discusses the properties and types of triangles, explaining that a triangle is a closed figure with three sides and angles. It categorizes triangles into equilateral, isosceles, scalene, obtuse, right ...
Pi Day (3/14) often comes with sweet treats; Square Root Day (4/4/16 or 5/5/25, for example) has a certain numerical rhyme.
Trigonometry is a branch of mathematics that studies relationships between the sides and angles of triangles. Trigonometry is found all throughout geometry, as every straight-sided shape may be broken ...
There’s a delightful mathematical moment in the movie Merry Andrew, when Danny Kaye, playing schoolmaster Andrew Larabee, breaks into song to teach the Pythagorean theorem. I was reminded of this ...
With all due respect to Pythagoras, newly uncovered evidence suggests that his famous theorem, used to calculate the lengths of each side of a right triangle, might be 1,000 years older than him. That ...