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Making a Point, Any Point The Concurrency Theorems of Triangles, and More I was looking through modern high school geometry textbook the other day, and thumbed by the section on what are called the concurrency theorems, four (usually) theorems that state that lines meeting certain conditions in the triangle, the three angle bisectors for example, will all pass through a single point. I felt a sense of nostalgia as I reflected on my first experience with the theorems, and the many times I had seen them since, tied to some little interesting curiosity. In my experience, high school textbooks seldom give life to theorems. An occasional strange exception may appear, but rarely. Yet the concurrency theorems, or at least three of them, seemed to be bound up in some deep mystery that would make the Da Vinci Code pale. In this section I want to point out some interesting little theorems about concurrency that are not covered in most textbooks, and in almost every case, the proof is simple enough that the average high school geometry student should be able to understand. Most are short enough to include in the text, the others I will tuck into an appendix or refer you to a source. Medians: If you take a triangle and draw a segment from a vertex that cuts the opposite side or side extended, it is called a cevian, after the Italian mathematician Geovanni Ceva. I introduce it only because it is a nice short term to describe a type of segment I will speak of often. As a student, the first I came to know was the medians. If you draw a triangle, any triangle, and find the midpoints of two of the edges and then construct the cevian from the opposite vertices to these edges, they intersect at a point inside the triangle. If you then draw a line from the remaining vertex through this intersection, it will pass through the midpoint of the remaining side….. every time…and as if this piece of divination wasn’t enough, the pieces of each segment were always divided into the