Stage: 2 Challenge Level: 
Find a way to cut a $4$ by $4$ square into only two pieces, then rejoin the two pieces to make an L shape, $6$ units high.
Interactivities. Practical Activity. Cubes. Compound transformations. Tangram. Games. Visualising. Squares. Working systematically. Generalising.
Published February 1999.
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