A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a rhombus.
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
Read about David Hilbert who proved that any polygon could be cut up into a certain number of pieces that could be put back together to form any other polygon of equal area.
This task develops spatial reasoning skills. By framing and asking questions a member of the team has to find out what mathematical object they have chosen.
The challenge is to produce elegant solutions. Elegance here implies simplicity. The focus is on rhombi, in particular those formed by jointing two equilateral triangles along an edge.
Explore patterns based on a rhombus. How can you enlarge the pattern - or explode it?
Learn how to draw circles using Logo. Wait a minute! Are they really circles? If not what are they?
Take an equilateral triangle and cut it into smaller pieces. What can you do with them?
