median
don steward
mathematics teaching 10 ~ 16

Thursday 17 August 2017

quadrilaterals on a 3 by 3 dotty grid

now an oldish task
part of the South Nottinghamshire Project ('Journey into Maths')
by Alan Bell, David Rooke and Alan Wigley
published by Blackie in 1978

the teacher's guide claims there are a total of 94 different positions
counting translations, reflections or rotations

an intention might be that students do not count transformations of each shape (initially anyway)
i.e. find all the different ones that they can
in which case there are 16






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