Play with Puzzles
Using puzzles to understand areas and equidecomposability
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World of Work

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Toy designer
World of Work Dimensions

Context
The floor of the Dream King’s magic room is covered by a carpet which gives the king his power. The carpet’s magic power appears only if it covers the whole floor of a room, and if all the pieces are used and do not overlap.

Role
Sort and organize different objects in a given space

Activity


Product
Posters illustrating the solutions
Abstract
Your task is to move a carpet from an unconventional room to an other unconventional room (like in the figure) by cutting it in smaller pieces and rearranging the pieces.



Documents
Manual

Copyright/Creative Commons
Mascil partner: RO  

Materials are published under the
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Inquiry Learning

Inquiry Learning Dimensions

- Exploring situations
- Planning Investigations
- Experimenting systematically
- Interpreting and evaluating
- Communicating results

Discipline
- Mathematics
- Biology
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Engineering


Target group
- Primary Education
- Lower Secondary Education
- Upper Secondary Education

Age range
11-18

Duration
100 min.