"I think that's a stretch," Calcea said. When the pair started working on the math contest they were familiar with the Pythagorean Theorem's equation: A² + B² = C², which explains that by ...

Both had studied geometry and some trigonometry, and both told us math was not easy. What no one told them was there had been more than 300 documented proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem using ...

In 2022, two high school students created a trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem—something that ... was a bonus question of a high school math contest… motivated by the $500 ...

The standard Pythagorean theorem is used on an ... Johnson and Jackson first became interested in Pythagoras’ theorem when they entered a math contest created to spark students’ further ...

a high school in Louisiana challenged its students with a bonus math question that came with a $500 cash prize: Using trigonometry, they had to create a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem ...

NEW ORLEANS — The two women and St. Mary’s Academy graduates who used trigonometry to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem math equation, had their findings confirmed by the math ...

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According to the Guardian, the two students were the only high schoolers in attendance, alongside math researchers ... in the understanding of the Pythagorean theorem. The equation is nearly ...