Showing posts with label proof. Show all posts
Showing posts with label proof. Show all posts

Monday, June 5, 2017

Euclid's Algorithm



This tool for visualizing of Euclid's algorithm (programmed by Jason Davies) comes from Underground Mathematics. Fawn Nguyen has written a fabulous narrative on how she used it as a notice-and-wonder activity with her sixth graders. What she did would work just as well with high school students. All you need to get started are two positive whole numbers.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Pythagorean Proof

Jim Morey created this elegant interactive geometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.