Stick Around Investigations
Investigation 1
Do you notice anything about the number of matches and the kind of areas you can build?
Investigation 2
Is there a relationship between the number of matches used and the smallest area that can be built?
Investigation 3
If you have any number of matches can they be arranged on an infinite grid so that the number of matches equals the number of matches?
Search Investigation
Using just 4 matches these 4 different closed shapes can be created.
How many non congruent shapes can you create using 8 matches?