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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem, a problem that stumped math world for centuries

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Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem, a problem that stumped math world for centuries

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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.

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Yeah, math is so much more than numbers.
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  Yeah, I didn’t claim it was.
  
  If I said that I was bad at algebra, which are part of math, would you have said “yeah, math is so much more than algebra”?

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