PRT Lesson Plan
PRT Lesson Plan
PRT Lesson Plan
Examples 9 and 10
Students solve these problems on their own.
Check answers with teacher.
Answer must be correct in order to receive their
homework.
Closure: (If time)
Review the strategies for solving word problems. How do you know
which side is the hypotenuse? Whats the formula for the Pythagorean
theorem?
Evaluation: Students must check their answers with a teacher before
they receive their homework.
Resources: iPads, pencils, notesheets, calculator
Directions: Solve each word problem using the Pythagorean theorem. Draw
pictures and show your work. Round each answer to the nearest tenth, if
necessary. Label your answers with the correct units.
1) The slide at the playground has a height of 6 feet. The horizontal distance of the
slide is 8 feet. What is the length of the sliding board?
2) Emilys cat is stuck in a tree. To rescue the cat, Emily places the base of a 10 foot
ladder 3 feet from the tree. Approximately, whats the height of the branch on which
the cat is stuck?
3) The diagonal of a rectangle is 25 inches and the width is 15 inches. What is the
length?
5) John leaves school to go home. He walks 5 blocks north and then 9 blocks west.
How far is John from the school?
6) A 13 feet ladder is placed 5 feet away from a wall. The distance from the ground
straight up to the top of the wall is 13 feet. Will the ladder reach the top of the wall?
7) A park is in the shape of a rectangle 10 miles long and 9 miles wide. How much
shorter is your walk if you walk diagonally across the park than along two sides of it?
8) Tim has let out 50 meters of kite string when he observes that his kite is directly
above Kylee. If Tim is 35 meters from Kylee, how high is the kite?
9) A 5 foot ramp is placed on the back of a truck to load a lawn mower. If the truck
bed is 4 feet high, how far away is the base of the ramp from the truck?
10) A 13 foot wire is stretched from the top of a pole to a stake 5 feet from the base
of the pole. How tall is the pole?