Theodorus spiral art

This article will explain how to make a spiral from the Pythagorean Theorem. For those students who don't quite understand the theorem yet, this can help them start to understand. If your not a teacher making a creative lesson, this could just be a little project to get your creativity and brain stimulated. Should you not know what the Pythagorean Theorem is or how to solve for the missing side of a triangle, this article should cover that within the instructions.

SQUARE ROOT SPIRAL: Spiral of Theodorus The building blocks of life are Squares. That which we call Square Roots, a frightening term, is the diagonal length of extremely opposing corners. When we begin our Journey with the Unit Square or 1x1, the main diagonal gives a value of 1.4142... aka The Square Root of 2, or Root 2, because 1.4141... multiplied by itself, gives the length of 2. As we continually apply Pythagoras' Theorem (3 squared + 4 squared = 5 squared) to determine the next…

The Spiral of Theodorus - using square roots in a radically artistic way

Wheel of Theodorus - Hunger Games One of my 8th graders created this in my class. Nice work Julio :-)

SPIRAL OF THEODORUS Students got creative on Thursday and Friday! They started with creating a Spiral of Theodorus; which shows that all non square numbers from 1-17 are irrational. They then had t…

For the fourth year in a row, students practiced the Pythagorean theorem and exercised their creativity with this art project. I first heard about “wheel of theodorus” from yummy math a…