Stage: 1 Challenge Level: 
How many matchsticks do we need to make one triangle?
How many to make two?
Is there more than one answer to each of these questions?
Practical Activity. Investigations. Games. Interactivities. Equilateral triangles. Matchsticks. Tangram. Compound transformations. Working systematically. Visualising.
Published September 2000.
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