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| Square Cuts (Any Number of Players) Materials Needed: • sheet of paper per player • ruler per player • scissors per pair of players • coloured pencils • timer 1. On a sheet of paper, each player draws a right triangle of any size. A square is drawn on each of the two sides and the hypotenuse of the triangle. The squares are cut out and the right triangle is set aside. 2. Divide each square into five shapes by drawing straight lines. Each shape is coloured such that no two touching shapes are the same colour. 3. Cut out the coloured shapes by cutting along the lines, mix up the shapes, and pass the shapes to the player on the right. 4. Start the timer. Each player needs to reassemble the shapes back into the original squares such that the squares form the sides of a right triangle. Each player records the time it took to reassemble the original squares. Stop the timer when all players are done. 5. The score for each player is 300 – t, where t is the time required to reassemble the shapes, in seconds. 6. The winner is the player with the highest score. |