Sphinx Comes to Scotch CollegeAnna Casey
It took twenty minutes, almost to the second, before someone solved the problem of making four Sphinxes into a bigger Sphinx.
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![]() Teams begin to work together to make pieces for larger Sphinxes. |
![]() They wouldn't let me take this one off the whiteboard until we had three more like it to make our gigantic Size 64... |
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...and run out of masking tape!
The maths we did was fantastic. Number, pattern, perimeter, area and more. The children even suggested that to measure the area of Size 64 we would have to break it into parts like triangles. One of the most mathematically engaging activities that my students have been involved in. The enthusiasm to create a 642 Sphinx was infectious.
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