Gobble Up Some Math Fun
November 20, 2012 at 2:52 pm Leave a comment
How’s this for a change? I’m actually going to start this post with a joke…
What did the mathematician say after finishing Thanksgiving dinner?
(I overate).
The following turkey was made entirely from pattern blocks:
For some wholesome family fun, try to construct a pattern block turkey with the following:
- three hexagons
- three trapezoids
- four triangles
- five fat rhombi
- five skinny rhombi
If you don’t have a bucket of pattern blocks at your disposal, download the following template from the MJ4MF website, copy it onto cardstock, and cut out the 20 shapes you’ll need:
If that puzzle doesn’t give you enough to think about, here are a few quotes that might:
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch,
you must first invent the universe.
~ Carl SaganThanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Halftimes take 12 minutes. This is not coincidence.
~ Erma Bombeck
Happy Turkey Day!
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