The base and the perpendicular height are at right angles to each other. The measurements used must be in the same units. For example, to work in cm a 45 mm measurement would have to be converted to ...

To calculate the area of a rectangle you multiply the length by the width. A right-angled triangle is like half a rectangle. So to calculate the area of a triangle, you can work out the area of the ...

There’s a delightful mathematical moment in the movie Merry Andrew, when Danny Kaye, playing schoolmaster Andrew Larabee, breaks into song to teach the Pythagorean theorem. I was reminded of this ...

Discusses the properties and types of triangles, explaining that a triangle is a closed figure with three sides and angles. It categorizes triangles into equilateral, isosceles, scalene, obtuse, right ...