Today Carson and I worked on the application of the Pythagorean Theorem. We started with a visual of a man standing 7 ft away from a tree. It gave us the distance from the man's eyes to the top of the tree. We had to determine how tall the man was and how tall the tree was by doing the Pythagorean theorem twice. Carson found it difficult at first to set up the problem. Once I gave him hints on how to approach it, he got on the right track and was able to solve for the missing values. While working, we ended up with a Pythagorean Triple. This is a concept that comes up in ACT/SAT prep, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to show it to him now.