Here is a man among the trees looking at where to put a fence. It's
a circular fence.
These diagrams show where the fence may
go when the trees are planted in squares:
These diagrams show where the fence may
go when the trees are planted in triangles:
So, let's start by looking at different
examples of these circles and see what things we notice. Then we
could decide what we could try out and explore!
This problem could be worked on in a
group of about four. For more details about how you might go about
doing this, please read theTeachers'
Notes.