Monday, February 26, 2007
posted by Carmel at 6:54 PM
Hellow there!

So, last friday we started a new unit called "DISTANCE BETWEEN POINTS."

DISTANCE FORMULA:

Find the distance between a(3,6) and B(7,9).

ex.

The distance between two points can be expressed in terms of their coordinates by using the Pythagorean theorem.

In a right triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse (longest side) is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.

 



3 Comments:


At February 26, 2007 at 10:43 PM, Blogger Ms. Armstrong

Very nice job illustrating the connection between the distance formula and pythagoras theorem.

 

At February 26, 2007 at 10:44 PM, Blogger Ms. Armstrong

Oh yah...who is the next scribe?

 

At February 27, 2007 at 8:38 PM, Blogger siopao

Nice diagrams carmel