A mathematical fable
Lesson created by Jordan Reeves using TED-Ed's lesson creatorVideo from Numberphile YouTube channel
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When two triangles are similar, the reduced ratio of any two corresponding sides is called the scale factor of the similar triangles. What does that mean? Perhaps the story of this king's decision to partition his land will clarify a few things about scaling and similarity.
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Gillian Brenner
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This was cool
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Jasmine Perilli
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It was well made.
Aaditya Rathore
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you are right. this indeed was cool.
MINJEONG KIM
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I liked the way they used a story to explain complex pythagorean theorems and scaling ect.
Andrew Holden
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Yeah, clever!
Chip Brenner
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Yes. It was
