Jack
and Adele were both feeling grumpy. It
was a very hot day and they were stuck inside the classroom practising some
really hard spellings. Suddenly Adele
shouted, “Move your arm! It’s on my side
of the table!”
“No,
it’s not! That’s my side,” shouted Jack angrily. “And anyway, your pencil case is on my side
of the table!” he moaned, shoving it to the floor.
“Now,
now stop all this noise,” said their teacher.
“I’ve got an idea. I will draw a
line to divide your table in half. Then
you will each have exactly the same amount of space and there will be no more
arguing!”
Can you divide the rectangular table so that the two
children have exactly the same amount of space?
Find different ways to divide the table into equal parts. You can draw your solution on a piece of A4
paper pretending that the paper is the table top.
Hint: Try
different ways of folding the paper to get two equal halves. Perhaps cutting may also allow you to test if
your two halves are equal by laying them on top of each other.
Solutions are to be completed by Tuesday 28th February.
Please post them into the Maths Challenge Box in the picture book
library.
