{"id":71088,"date":"2020-04-22T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=71088"},"modified":"2020-05-25T14:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T18:08:41","slug":"square-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/math\/math-grades-7-8\/games\/square-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Square It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Games<\/h5>\n<p>This is a game for two players.<\/p>\n<h3>The object of the game:<\/h3>\n<p>Be the first person to make a square.<\/p>\n<h2>Rules:<\/h2>\n<p>Players take turns to choose a dot on the grid.<br \/>\nThe winner is the first player to choose four dots that can be joined to form a square.<br \/>\nPlayer one is blue and player two is red.<\/p>\n<h3>Here is a picture showing a completed game won by blue:<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-71089\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/square-it.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/square-it.png 720w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/square-it-300x288.png 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/04\/square-it-165x159.png 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Squares can be any size, and can be tilted like the one in the picture.<\/p>\n<p>Play the game a few times.<br \/>\nOnce you have a strategy, you could try playing on different sized grids.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/solvingtogether\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nrich.maths.org\/solvingtogether<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The object of the game: Be the first person to make a square.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72939,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71088","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15985"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71088\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}