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To: nickcarraway

> Do kids still learn Pythagorean Theorem? Triangles? <

I’m a retired public high school teacher. When I first started teaching 30 some years ago, I taught math. Geometry was its own separate course. And it was based on formal proofs. Given this, prove that.

It was a great course, as it taught logical and organized thinking. So naturally the school board got rid of it. Near the end of my career, I taught physics. And we used the Pythagorean Theorem often. It has many practical applications.


13 posted on 02/18/2024 5:24:52 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right

I got ChapGPT to give me a nice proof of the Pythagorean Theorem in n-dimensional Euclidian Space but I found a minor error in it which he accepted gracefully and apologized for.


32 posted on 02/19/2024 5:24:09 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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