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don steward
mathematics teaching 10 ~ 16

Wednesday 13 April 2011

quadrilaterals to a rectangle

the topic of area can be approached from a perspective that all shapes are really rectangles (pretending to be something else)

present the pictures to students and ask them to explain how a kite and and an arrowhead can be transformed  into rectangles of equal area:
















and a rhombus:

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