Real World Applications

Today we learned about triangles in the real world.

Objective:
Students will solve real world problems using triangles.

TEKS:
G.4

The student is expected to select an appropriate
representation (concrete, pictorial, graphical, verbal, or
symbolic) in order to solve problems.

Mr. Escalante described lots of ways to use triangles to solve problems. He said that construction workers, painters, engineers, gardeners and architects all apply the things we have learned about triangles on a regular basis.

For example, painters need to be able to find the areas of things that they will paint, and many houses have triangular portions below the roof.

                         

Engineers use perimeters find out how much material is needed to build a truss.

Construction workers use special right triangles, the Pythagorean theorem and similarity to construct pitched roofs.

As you can see, there are lots of applications of all the things we learned about triangles in this unit.