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This year marks my tenth year as a teacher of Maths. During that time, I've built up a bank of teaching resources and ideas which I want to share with others. I'll polish them up a bit before uploading them here. Some can be incorporated into lessons and others act as discussion points.

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The majority of posts are focused around Maths, but there are some which look at pedagogy and CPD which can be used in other subjects/settings. Search for lesson resources using the tags at the side. Pedagogy has it's own section.

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Resources can be used in educational settings, including private tuition.

Congruent Cake Slices

Here's a plan (top down view) of a cake. The challenge is to cut the cake into congruent pieces. Two and three pieces are pretty easy and may serve as a nice warm up, but then four becomes more challenging.

Here's a solution. There may be others.

An interesting finding while trying to solve the problem is below. This cuts the cake into four pieces of equal size, but they are not congruent. One of my students did, however, point out that it looks 3 dimensional - four congruent rectangles arranged in an L shape - which I thought was a clever loophole of sorts. 


 

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