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This Week's Work : Week 40 - for Inquisitive Young Mathletes

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Keep reviewing just acquired concepts : sequences, similar triangles, dimensional changes.
Concept-based homework will be sent out through e-mail.

For this week's work. learn to get all the sides fast for the two special right triangles and 
be able to get the area of any polygon using the shoestring method. 

From Art of Problem Solving of some triangles:

Isosceles and Equilateral Triangles

Isosceles Right Triangles (45-45-90 degree special right triangles)

30-60-90 Degree Special Right Triangles

From my blog

Pythagorean triples for Mathcounts/AMCs

(3,4,5)(5,12,13)(7,24,25)(8,15,17)(9,40,41)
(11,60,61)(12,35,37)(13,84,85)(20,21,29)(16, 63, 65)

Triangles share the same vertices.



E-mail me if you have any question(s), want more problems to practice for ___ concepts 
or want to try one complete, actual test. 



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