Area (Equal – Pythagorean Triples)

I have been looking at Pythagoras with year 11 and also looking at Pythagoras in context questions. When we looked at question with a Pythagorean triple, I drew an square with length 5cm with a square of length 4cm cut away, next to it I drew a square with length 3cm. We discussed why the two shapes equalled. This left me thinking about other shapes with equal areas.

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