For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Known as the Pythagorean Theorem, this ...

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her ...

NEW ORLEANS — A high school math contest has turned into a history-making event thanks to a pair of young girls. These two teenage math stars have developed five new proofs of the Pythagorean ...

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.

In one of their proofs, the two students took the definition of calculating with triangles to its extreme by filling one larger triangle with sequences of smaller triangles and using calculus to ...