Students in Mrs. Wilson’s geometry classes recently completed a project applying their knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem to create spiral artwork that is on display on a second floor bulletin board.

Wilson said the 8th, 9th, and 10th grade students in her Honor Geometry and Geometry classes were asked to create a set of right triangles by using the hypotenuse of one triangle as the leg of the next triangle.

“After drawing 17 right triangles, the students creatively transformed their figures into an artistic masterpiece of their choice and their really did an excellent job,” Wilson said. The week-long project also required the students to calculate the hypotenuse of each triangle and estimate the length of the hypotenuse of the last triangle based on their calculations.

Several of the students who completed the project posed with Wilson next to the bulletin board. The students, from left, are: Aine Dorsey, Ava Nixon, David O’Donnell, Alek Stein, and Cody Weyman.