Shortest Distances via Pythagoras (Tanton Mathematics) @DrJamesTanton
Shortest Distances via Pythagoras (Tanton Mathematics)  @DrJamesTanton
Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
In the highschool curriculum it is usually assumed that the shortest path between two points is a straight line. Is there any justification for this belief?
Here's a wonderful way to think about matters as fun applications of Pythagoras's theorem. It is fun to have this discussion with students.
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