Remarks on your contribution to the Basic Skills Project

Dear group 17,

You have a good start here, but I would like to see more of the content you still want to post. It does look promising so far, keep up the good work, but quickly if you want more feedback. Cheers,

David Kohler‎

Dear group 17,

Here are some remarks on your page:

In your description of the Pythagorean Theorem, why is there a line on the area of a triangle? I don't see the point.
The water demo video (which is fun) cannot constitute a mathematical proof of the theorem, but it does make for a nice application of the theorem in the real world. A little discussion about this would be appreciated, I don't want the other students to believe this should be called a proof.
As for applications in the trigonometric circle, I was hoping for an explanation of the identity: $\cos ^{2}(\alpha )+\sin ^{2}(\alpha )=1$ which is true for any value of the angle $\alpha$ .
In terms of picture management, try to replace the code:

[[File:500px-Pythagorean.svg.png]]

by the code

[[File:500px-Pythagorean.svg.png|thumb|left|A geometric visualization of the Pythagorean Theorem|300px]]

It will look much better. Using this kind of tricks can help improve the visual appeal of your page.

Please, don't sign where you contributed, I don't really care, this is a group effort. You will fill an evaluation form to distinguish who contributed more or less and by this way, redistribute the grade among yourselves.

Feel free to contact me if necessary of course. Cheers,

David Kohler‎