Blog Post #3

Charlie Krampf

Professor Little

Applied Pre-Calc

24 February 2014

Blog Post #3

Story: What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras. By Jill Ellis. 

1. The story is about a curious boy named, Pythagoras, who was a trouble maker. Pythagoras is wondering around town one day when he runs across a construction site, he finds that the construction workers have built the pillars crooked, and their latter is to short. Pythagoras after returning home for dinner, is told he will go adventure with his father on a boat. Him and his father go to a city where they meet a builder, and Pythagoras learns about the right triangle. When he returns home, he goes to construction workers and shows them about the triangle, and how it will help them with the crooked pillars. Pythagoras also helps his father with his sailing route. All in all Pythagoras saved the day and create a theorem called the Pythagorean theorem. A(squared)+B(squared)=C(squared)
2. Pythagorean Theorem is used mainly in Geometry, but is also an algebraic skill. The Theorem is used in many fields of work such as, architecture, construction, and engineering. The book does a great job of visualizing what the right triangle looks like, and how it can be used in everyday life. 
3. I believe learning in different ways is very effective. Such as reading something and then actively learning about it. Actively learning meaning that you are actually writing out the problems and salving them on paper. For me at least it helps if I read how to do something, such as reading about Pythagorean Theorem, and then actually writing a problem out and solving it.