Exploring the Circumscribed Circle of a Triangle
2014-03-13 03:50
This example demonstrates how to explore the construction of a triangle's circumscribed circle by dragging the circle's center to various positions passing through two vertices of the triangle. By observing the locus marks at these positions, students can intuitively understand that the circumcenter is the intersection of the perpendicular bisectors of the triangle's three sides. Using basic geome
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