Triangles

Yesterday, March 25, 191 at 4:40 pm, a fire at the Triangle Waist Company 10 floor building in New York city broke out and killed 146 young workers who were mostly immigrants. The fire started when someone threw either a match or cigarette int0 the waste bucket. Someone smelled smoke and told the manager who then started to throw water onto the fire, but it was already too late. Everyone began to panic and run for the door, but the door was too small and could only fit one person through at a…

fire was so far up firefighter could not reach it with a ladder. “In 1911, there were two elevators with access to the factory floors, but only one was fully operational and the workers had to file down a long, narrow corridor in order to reach it.”(Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire). The elevator only made one single trip letting a crowd of people to safety. A machine operator trying to escape pried the empty elevator doors open and slowly slid down the cables. Six girls jumped off into the…

Milestone Three One of the greatest events that resulted from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was the creation a nine member commission dubbed the Factory Investigation Commission (FIC). Following the fire, a superficial investigation was completed and it was found that there were conditions in factories and manufacturing establishments that constituted a daily menace to the lives of the thousands of working men, women, and children. It was also found that there was a lack of fire…

Pythagorean Theorem also known as Pythagoras’s theorem is a relation in Euclidean geometry that are the tree sides of a right triangle. It’s the sum of the areas of the two squares on the legs equals the area of the square on the hypotenuse. The equation use for it is A squared plus B squared equals C squared.The Theorem relates the lengths of the three sides of any right triangle. The theorem is named after the ancient Greek. There is evidence that indicates that Pythagorean Theorem was well-…

Big Idea: 1 Making connections during lessons in any subject are a huge benefactor for students of all ages, but especially beneficial to those of a younger age. There are many different ways you can make connections throughout lesson plans. It may be just comparing a situation to a student’s life, or it may be allowing the students to identify with your topic of interest by role-playing with them. The big idea of this lesson plan is “Making Connections.” I will be incorporating the two…

At about twenty centuries ago there was an amazing discovery about right angled triangles: “In a right angled triangle the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of squares of the other two sides.” It is called Pythagoras Theorem and can be written in one short equation: a²+b²=c² where c is the longest side of triangle and a and b are the other two sides. Pythagoras was born in the island of Samos in 570 BC in Greek in the eastern Agean. He was the son of Mnesarchus and his mother's name…

relate it to the area of a triangle, but later acquired the fact that the side length and height of an isosceles triangle cannot be equivalent, which meant that the area of a triangle would not fit this image. Figure 2 Created in Microsoft Paint In Figure 2, I have attempted to display an isosceles triangle to put in place of the swimmer's legs. In this image, the swimmer’s legs are represented by the side length r, along with the height of the isosceles triangle being represented with h.…

Odd numbers were thought of as female and even numbers as male.” Pythagoras’ Theorem and the properties of right-angled triangles seems to be the most ancient and widespread mathematical development after basic arithmetic and geometry, and it was touched on in some of the most ancient mathematical texts from Egypt , dating from over a thousand years earlier. One of the simplest…

The Triangle Factory Fire Trial: Blanck and Harris go Free After the devastating Triangle Waist Company fire, 146 workers out of the 500 working that day perished in the raging fire. Workers died left and right due to panic, confusion, and chaos. Max Blanck and Isaac Harris were blamed for the deaths of the many workers. Many people believed that they locked doors and that their fire safety precautions were almost nonexistent. They were taken to court on charges of manslaughter and were found…

These things don't exist in math. Math is full of "rules" that don't have exceptions. Things such as the Pythagorean Theorem will always work for right triangles. There will never be a right triangle where a^2 + b^2 does not = c^2. This is what I like about math. Math is a subject that I think would never Let me down ; It has no contradictions. It's something that's reliable and useful. I've learned that without math, life…