Headline Story
Two-Dimensional Figures and Spatial Sense, #3
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Introduction
Read the Headline Story to the class. Encourage children to find different answers for the question. Suggest that they mention what Stuart could and could not have drawn.
Headline Story
Stuart drew 2 congruent polygons. What could he have drawn?
Possible student responses
- Stuart’s polygons are the same size and shape.
- Stuart could have drawn two congruent triangles.
- Stuart did not draw two circles.
- Stuart could not have drawn a triangle and a rectangle.
- If Stuart cut out his drawings they would fit perfectly on top of one another.
- Stuart’s figures were not necessarily in the same position.
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