Resumen

FLORES PENAFIEL, Alfinio  y  OAK YUN, Jeong. El teorema de Pitágoras con frijoles de goma. Educ. mat [online]. 2008, vol.20, n.1, pp. 103-113. ISSN 1665-5826.

Middle school students explore the Pythagorean Theorem and some of its extensions by using a fenced mat, and jelly beans to measure the area of the squares and semicircles. They use factorization and simplification of algebraic expressions to show the equivalence of results.

Palabras llave : Pythagorean theorem; experimental geometry; Van Hiele levels.