Pythagoras lesson with all differentiated resources

A lesson on using Pythagoras theorem. Includes a powerpoint teaching students about how to apply Pythagoras’ theorem, a differentiated workbook and a rounding dominos activity for the starter. Skills covered include using Pythagoras to find the hypotenuse, using Pythagoras to find the short side and length of a set of coordinates, using Pythagoras to find the perimeter of compound shape

Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing and maybe some cutting!).

Students will need to know how to round to significant figures and decimal places in order to access this lesson fully.

Fully differentiated objectives:
Blue:
Use Pythagoras’ theorem to find the length of the hypotenuse in a right-angled triangle.
Gold:
Use Pythagoras’ theorem to find length of a short side in a right-angled triangle
Use Pythagoras’ theorem to find the length of a line segment, given the coordinates of the end-points.
Red:
Use Pythagoras’ theorem to find lengths and areas of compound shapes

This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
• A differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections
• 2 sets of dominos on rounding to decimal places and significant figures to use as a starter activity (if you need a more comprehensive set of dominos click here)
• Answers

The PowerPoint includes the following format (watch the preview video here):
• Objective and levels
• A starter
• A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples
• And Afl mini whiteboard quiz
• Plenary (with answers)

Recommendations:
Laminate the dominos for use again
The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grades, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade.

This will take up a whole lesson at least.

Need more Pythagoras??

Check out my differentiated worksheets here. Great for homework!