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Geogebra - Pythagorean Sketch

 

In Geogebra,

  • Create a right triangle. Make sure it always stays as a right triangle.
  • Now create squares off each side. Use regular polygon
  • Find the area of each square
  • Now show that the shorter two legs squared equals the hyp. squared. To do that, enter text and for the text starts with "" + (a^2
    • ""+ is used to say that you are going to put in a formula
    • ^ is for exponent