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Six to Four

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Stage: 1 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:2 Challenge Level:2

Move four sticks so there are exactly four triangles.

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Interactivities. Visualising. Games. Working systematically. Matchsticks. Tangram. Practical Activity. Compound transformations. Equilateral triangles. Investigations.

Published September 2000.

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