ShmoopTube

Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.

Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos

Triangles 6456 Views


Share It!


Description:

This video covers the different types of triangle. What makes a triangle isosceles, scalene, or equilateral? What about the different kinds of angle? Obtuse, acute, right…so many triangle types and angles, so little time.

Language:
English Language

Transcript

00:00

Triangles, a la Shmoop. Goldilocks has had it up to here with bears.

00:09

Understandably so. She is also through with porridge...

00:12

... ever since she tried the delicious, crispy, cheesy crunch of a Shmorito Nacho Cheese flavored

00:18

chip.

00:18

Well she's on a Corn Chip bender now.

00:21

Seriously, she needs help. She can't stop herself from raiding the homes

00:27

of poor, innocent families in search of their cheesy chips.

00:31

One day she picked the wrong cottage... She tore into one of the bags... but was disappointed

00:36

with the first Shmorito she grabbed.

00:39

Goldi is very picky about her Shmorito shapes, and this one was clearly an obtuse triangle...

00:44

...which had one angle that was greater than 90 degrees.

00:46

She tried talking some sense into it, but it didn't seem to understand.

00:48

The next Shmorito had the opposite problem -- all of its angles were less than 90 degrees.

00:52

It's a shame, because the Dorito was pretty acute, but Goldi was compelled to keep looking.

00:58

Many of the Shmoritos in the bag were equilateral triangles.

01:01

All of their sides were congruent, but it still wasn't doing it for Goldi.

01:06

"Too perfect," she thought. She also came across a Shmorito that was Isosceles,

01:14

with two equal sides.

01:15

"Not perfect enough," Goldi thought. There was a scalene Shmorito...

01:21

...with three sides of completely different lengths.

01:23

"Must have been an accident at the Shmorito factory," Goldi thought.

01:31

Just when she was about to give up...

01:32

...Goldi finally happened upon a Shmorito with a right angle.

01:36

"A right triangle!" Goldi shouted excitedly. "Ah... now this one is juuuuust right."

01:46

Unfortunately, Goldi's pickiness cost her in the end.

01:50

In all the excitement, she hadn't heard the deer come home.

01:52

These deer loved their Shmoritos as well.

01:55

Goldi was about to wish she had tangled with a family of bears.

Up Next

Surface Area of Cylinders
14740 Views

Haven't you always wondered how much cardboard it takes to encase a trunk warmer for your pet elephant?

Related Videos

Perimeter of Irregular Shapes
4864 Views

Want to figure out the area and perimeter of irregular shapes? Break them down into regular shapes. For example, a flower can be broken down into s...

Introduction to 3D Geometry
55502 Views

It's one thing when all those shapes are sitting flat on the page. But when they start popping out and invading our personal space bubble, we get a...

An Introduction to 3D Geometry
812 Views

Does thinking about 3D Geometry get you bent out of shape? Never fear! Watch this video and figure out some fun new shapes to bend back into. We're...

ACT Math 3.5 Plane Geometry
394 Views

ACT Math: Plane Geometry Drill 3, Problem 5. How long would it take for the wheel to make two rotations?