Media Summary: This is a short animation showing a standard fact about how to find the area of a trapezoid by finding a triangle with the same area ... In this video, we show how to prove that the golden ratio is the length of a diagonal in a regular pentagon with a side length of 1. More resources available at www.misterwootube.com.

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This is a short animation showing a standard fact about how to find the area of a trapezoid by finding a triangle with the same area ... In this video, we show how to prove that the golden ratio is the length of a diagonal in a regular pentagon with a side length of 1. More resources available at www.misterwootube.com.

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Completing the Square (visual proof)
Trapezoid Area (visual proof)
Golden Ratio is Irrational from a Regular Pentagon (visual proof)
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How to lie using visual proofs

How to lie using visual proofs

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Circle Area (classic visual proof)

Circle Area (classic visual proof)

This is an animation of a classic

Trig Double Angle Formulas from Semicircle (visual proof)

Trig Double Angle Formulas from Semicircle (visual proof)

This is a short, animated

Law Of Cosines I (visual proof)

Law Of Cosines I (visual proof)

This is a short, animated

AM-QM Inequality Visual Proof

AM-QM Inequality Visual Proof

This is a short, animated

Law of Sines Visual Proof

Law of Sines Visual Proof

This is a short, animated

Completing the Square (visual proof)

Completing the Square (visual proof)

This is a short, animated

Trapezoid Area (visual proof)

Trapezoid Area (visual proof)

This is a short animation showing a standard fact about how to find the area of a trapezoid by finding a triangle with the same area ...

Golden Ratio is Irrational from a Regular Pentagon (visual proof)

Golden Ratio is Irrational from a Regular Pentagon (visual proof)

In this video, we show how to prove that the golden ratio is the length of a diagonal in a regular pentagon with a side length of 1.

Perfect Numbers (even ones) are Triangular (visual proof) -- with bonus open problem!

Perfect Numbers (even ones) are Triangular (visual proof) -- with bonus open problem!

This is a short, animated

Visual Proof of Pythagoras' Theorem

Visual Proof of Pythagoras' Theorem

More resources available at www.misterwootube.com.