Tiling Into Slanted Rectangles
A follow-up activity to Tiles in the Garden.
Problem
This is seen as a possible follow on from Tiles in the Garden.
This activity takes "Tiles in the Garden", much further. We can keep the main ideas the same -
- Square tiles
- A corner of a tile at each corner of the rectangle
- The ability to slice a tile into parts so as to use each part
So this one used $26$ and the slope was generated by going along $1$ and up $5$.
This time let's put on a limit of using less than $100$ tiles.
What sizes of rectangles could be filled obeying the three rules?
How many tiles for each rectangle you find?
Are there any numbers of tiles between $10$ and $100$ for which there cannot be a rectangle?
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Why do this problem?
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Possible Extension
It would be good to handing over to the pupil and encouraging the curiosity question "I wonder what would happen if . . . ?"