Flexible Approaches to Problem Solving
Flexible approaches to problem solving
Being able to solve problems flexibly is a key ingredient of what it means to be a good mathematician. The problems in this feature are designed to offer alternative ways of thinking about situations so that students can explore different ways of arriving at a solution.
Explore the area of families of parallelograms and triangles. Can you find rules to work out the areas?
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
Can you find and prove the relationship between the area of a trapezium and the area of a triangle constructed within it?
Can you work out the side length of a square that just touches the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle?
The farmers want to redraw their field boundary but keep the area the same. Can you advise them?