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This Lengths of Sides in Isosceles Right Triangles: Paper Football interactive also includes:
- Solve a 45-45 Right Triangle
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Fuse sports and geometry by having your class create paper footballs—that are actually isosceles right triangles! Scholars use an interactive to create an isosceles right triangle to model a paper football. From the information in the interactive, individuals determine lengths of sides of the triangle.
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- Provide opportunities to work with 45-45 right triangles
Classroom Considerations
- Pupils should be comfortable working with radicals
- Students should understand the Pythagorean Theorem
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- Includes hints for the problems
- The additional resource contains examples
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