Reading Time: 6 minutes In late July at UC Merced, a classroom of middle school students split into teams for a game of Jeopardy. One problem: if the base of a 12-foot ladder rests 3 feet from a wall, how high up the wall does the ladder reach? After the teacher sketched a triangle, students immediately recognized the concept. “This is giving Pythagorean Theorem,” one student exclaimed. Armed with miniature whiteboards, students drew the tri…
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