Area Two

Topics: Starter | Area | Geometry | Mensuration | Problem Solving | Shape

• Carol, Sheffield PArk Academy
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• 3 NQTs in the department, I'm new subject leader in this new academy - Starters R Great!! Lovely resource for stimulating learning and getting eveyone off to a good start. Thank you!!
• Mark, New Zealand
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• I used this for a struggling class of 13 year olds and it worked really well. From simple triangles of area 2 we used it to show that obtuse triangles can be made too: the grid makes working out areas so easy.
  
  Next time I will give them a sheet to record their findings though.
• Matt, Seb and David, Chatham Grammar School for Boys
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• We reckon there are at least 25!
• Miss Reakes, West Island School, HK
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• This is a great starter for a mixed ability class due to it's open ended posibilities. The brighter ones using fractions other than a half didn't want to stop! I gave dotted paper to the weaker ones to start them off immediately.
• C J Southward, Limehouse School Cumbria
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• My year 9s scored way over 45 including trapeziums and long triangles.
• William Hulme Grammar Academy, Year 8 Set 1
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• We got 18 different shapes but when you rotate and manipulate these base shapes we had over 50. But we only 10 minutes on it as a starter.
• M Mc Crea, Holy Cross College
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• My students took a while to grasp the complete concept but then some of the Girls especially warmed to the task and after a gentle nudge, found over 140, with rotations and all the different shapes already mentioned by the other teachers here.
• Mr Bentley, Braeview Primary, Happy Valley, Australia
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• We found 26 different shapes that totalled over 300. We stuck to regular shapes to make it easier. Five of my mathematicians stuck with this for nearly an hour.
• Mike, New Jersey, USA
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• I suspect that there are thousands (not counting reflections/rotations)
  for example (0,0)(2,1)(1,2)(3,1)(5,2)(4,1)(0,0), and all those points can be slid individually horizontally, making tons of permutations.
• Ilona Vashchyshyn, Twitter
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• The challenge: Write your name so that it covers an area of exactly 100 cm squared.
  
  Love the different strategies students used here. E.g. Leia, who chose to make each letter 25 cm^2. Notice the revisions on the A.#mathchat #MTBoS Cc @PaiMath pic.twitter.com/FowEQoL4I6

  — Ilona Vashchyshyn(@vaslona) November 16, 2018

• Nathan, Dulwich College Beijing
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• There are at LEAST 69 different shapes that have the area of 2 square units, using your graph. If there is unlimited graph space, the answer would be infinity!

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