{"id":71727,"date":"2020-05-06T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/?page_id=71727"},"modified":"2020-05-25T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T15:37:49","slug":"numbers-as-shapes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/learn\/elementary-home\/elementary-2\/math\/math-grades-1-3\/investigations\/numbers-as-shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Numbers as Shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Investigations<\/h5>\n<h3>Materials:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>squared paper, (if you don\u2019t have squared paper you can make your own by drawing lines vertically and horizontally that are 1 or 2 cm apart)<\/li>\n<li>crayon or pencil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the numbers 1 to 6 represented with coloured squares:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-71728\" src=\"http:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-04-at-10.43.07-AM.png\" alt=\"An image of yellow blocks, organized in groups of 1 to 6.\" width=\"500\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-04-at-10.43.07-AM.png 546w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-04-at-10.43.07-AM-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/files\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-04-at-10.43.07-AM-165x81.png 165w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We can call these numbers squares, rectangles or sticks (sticks are a column or row of single squares).<\/p>\n<p>1 is a square but just a single one.<br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t make 2 into a square so 2 is a stick.<br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t make 3 into a square or a rectangle so 3 can only be a stick.<br \/>\nWe can make 4 into a square.<br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t make 5 into a square or a rectangle, so 5 can only be a stick.<br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t make 6 into a square, but we can make 6 into a rectangle.<\/p>\n<p>If you used 7 squares, what could you make them into? A square, a rectangle or a stick? How about 8 squares?<\/p>\n<p>Try this with the numbers up to and including 20.<br \/>\nWhich ones can only be sticks?<br \/>\nWhich ones can make rectangles?<br \/>\nWhich ones are squares?<\/p>\n<p>What do you notice?<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/5158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nrichmaths.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can call these numbers squares, rectangles or sticks (sticks are a column or row of single squares).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15985,"featured_media":0,"parent":72786,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71727","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-elementary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71727","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=71727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71727\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/athome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}