It sounds like you just had a bad math teacher. The Pythagorean Theorem has quite a few proofs, a number of which are understandable to students with only basi

It sounds like you just had a bad math teacher. The Pythagorean Theorem has quite a few proofs, a number of which are understandable to students with only basic geometry knowledge. I'm almost certain I had to prove it in my math class at the time.