I hate having to deal with my kids being in math class. A multitude of reasons from Chicago math, "spiraling", etc. Today's reason is this.
Son has an assignment that involved designing a playground. It is a geometry project.
Part of the assignment has to do with designing the shape of the space to maximize area, given 240 one foot wide fence panels.
I know that the purpose of this is to have them learn that a regular rectangle (i.e., a square) gives the most area as compared to other rectangles. My son has seen examples from kids in other years - always a square.
But the largest area would come from creating a 240 sided regular polygon, that would basically look like a circle.
Do I tell my son this? Do I encourage him to try to draw a 240-sided shape to scale? Or do I just go with the flow?
Grrrr... I hate math class!
Son has an assignment that involved designing a playground. It is a geometry project.
Part of the assignment has to do with designing the shape of the space to maximize area, given 240 one foot wide fence panels.
I know that the purpose of this is to have them learn that a regular rectangle (i.e., a square) gives the most area as compared to other rectangles. My son has seen examples from kids in other years - always a square.
But the largest area would come from creating a 240 sided regular polygon, that would basically look like a circle.
Do I tell my son this? Do I encourage him to try to draw a 240-sided shape to scale? Or do I just go with the flow?
Grrrr... I hate math class!
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