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One of the biggest shifts in middle school geometry is moving from memorizing formulas to actually understanding where they come from. The Pythagorean Theorem is a perfect example. When students only see it as “that formula with a2+b2=c2a^2 + b^2 = c^2” they may plug in numbers correctly but have no sense of what the…
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