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By NC5th
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This one deals with geometry and algebra. It's more appropriate for younger grades, though. If you have pattern blocks (you know, the colored blocks where there's a yellow hexagon, a red trapezoid, a blue parallelogram,| green triangles, and orange square), you make an outline of a shape that can be filled using pattern blocks. I always used a simple flower shape. You can find pattern block outlines online, as well. Anyway, you have students try to see how many ways they can fill the same shape. The algebra skill is substitution. In algebra, x can equal whatever. In this activity, a hexagon can equal | |
6 triangles OR 3 paralellograms OR 2 trapezoids OR 1 trapezoid and 3 triangles OR 1 trapezoid, 1 parallelogram and 1 triangle and so on. I did this for a grad school class and it was fun and it got everyone moving. It actually takes quite a bit of thinking.
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