Triangle medians and centroids | Special properties and parts of triangles | Geometry | Khan Academy

Seeing that the centroid is 2/3 of the way along every median

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[iiiEatCrayonz]

Thank you so much, I hate math and it makes me so unmotivated to pay attention to it. This made me understand it so much since I can never understand what my teacher says (he has an accent). Thanks so much, omg!

[makiyahorne]

Thankful for this video 🙏. I have a geometry test tomorrow hopefully I’ll remember it🤞🏽🤞🏽

[aiyer]

Great! Really polished my crap understanding of medians and centroids, and really triangles.

[zack_]

A big jump! 5:36 - The applicability of median rules of 2D triangles to 3D triangles here should be proven 1st before being used as done here.

[mattt]

Saying that this explanation is phenomenal is an understatement! 👌

[Baileyrocks]

I didn't understand a single thing... what are you doing?

[stevebee]

You make geometry FUN FUN FUN. Thanks for this great stuff!

[jritzeku]

Why is only the denominator square rooted? For instance, why is square root of a^2/9 = a^2/3? Shouldn't it = a/3? square rooting both numerator and denominator.

[zakmo]

so does the orange points have a value of 2/3?

[qaysqashou]

I can`t explain of how thankful I`m for this video I wish if you were my math teacher haha!

[lennybiller]

why do you square root a^2 over 9, b^2 over 9, and c^2 over 9?

[youtubechannel]

Thankyou so much l am understand your point again thankyou so much

[mileallen]

So a segment of a median can be 1/2 or 1/3

[sakuri]

My teacher send a link to this video but I need the answers for the assignments he has so reply to this comment for me to send a link to the work so you can give me the answees

[fungfungchu]

Thanks for sharing, it really useful ^_^

[RobbieFranklin]

left handed coordinate systems make me uncomfortable....

[abiw]

when u went on about that triangle with extending lines i had no idea what u were talking about ppl don’t learn that before centroid so u shouldn’t b using advanced stuff with a basic problem

[shi]

Why is the video 8:59 and not 9:00 ;-;

[beegyoshi]

Feels a bit out dated that’s a ton of extra steps