Headline Story
Two-Dimensional Figures and Spatial Sense, #6
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Introduction
Read the Headline Story to children, and have them use the information in the story to solve the problem.
Headline Story
Sonya fit 2 polygons together to make a rectangle.
Possible student responses
- Sonya might have had two squares.
- Sonya might have had two triangles or two rectangles.
- If you start with a rectangle, you can cut it apart any way you want with straight lines to make two pieces that are polygons.
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