Exercise 1.2 (tangram)
A. Fill the appropriate tiles.
Fill the given region with appropriate tiles both intuitively and experimentally.
Activity 1
Which tile can you choose to fill the space given below and find how many tiles are needed to fill the given space.
Answer:
- (a) 25 tiles are needed to fill the given space.
- (b) 37.5 (35 full tiles + 5 half tiles) are needed to fill the given space.
- (c) 15 tiles are needed to fill the given space.
Activity 2
Which shape can you choose to fill the space given below and fill up the following the table.
Answer:
I can choose tile (a) only. I need 90 tiles to fill.