Educational Portfolio for Spencer Olmsted
Contact Information
Spencer Olmsted513 Central St NE
Olympia, WA 98506
(solmsted at yahoo)
2009-Current: 5th grade math and science teacher at Pioneer Elementary School in Olympia, Washington.
2006-2009: 5th grade teacher at L.P. Brown in Olympia.
Fall 2005: student taught in the 4th grade at Morning Star Elementary School in Bozeman, Montana.
Education
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Graduate Work
Field trip to the Tinsley House at the Museum of the Rockies
A Few Proofs for the Pythagorean Theorem
This geometric property states that for all right triangles, the area of squares of each side adjacent to the right angle equals the area of the square of the hypotenuse.
In other words,
As it was found without further explanation...
See the parallelogram law for a related idea.
Below is a another visual proof of the theorem using similar triangles
