Growing Shapes Investigation
In each of the Growing Shape
Puzzles the new shape is a scale factor
2 enlargement of the original.
3 of the smaller shapes are
required to build the enlargement.
What happens if there is a
scale factor enlargement of 3.
How many of the original
shapes are required to complete the filled enlargement.
Consider first the triangle,
then see what happens for the other shapes, the square, the trapezium and the L
shape.
What happens if the scale
factor is 4, 5 or 6?