Squares

Charlie likes to go for walks around a square park, while Alison likes to cut across diagonally. Can you find relationships between the vectors they walk along?

Can you recreate squares and rhombuses if you are only given a side or a diagonal?

This activity focuses on similarities and differences between shapes.

What is the perimeter of this unusually shaped polygon...

Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?

What can you see? What do you notice? What questions can you ask?

What fractions can you divide the diagonal of a square into by simple folding?

On the graph there are 28 marked points. These points all mark the vertices (corners) of eight hidden squares. Can you find the eight hidden squares?

What do you think is the same about these two Logic Blocks? What others do you think go with them in the set?

Weekly Problem 8 - 2008
In how many ways can a square be cut in half using a single straight line cut?