I saw a tweet from Amy Hogan this morning that reminded me of an old project:
The old project is here:
And Grant’s video is here:
Before we started the project today, I had my son watch Grant’s video. Here are some of his takeaways:
Now we tried to see if we could find a fair division of a string with two colors using only two cuts:
Finally, to wrap up we tried to see if we could do a fair division of a string with three colors using three cuts:
This is a fun and relatively easy project for kids, and also a way for them to see some really fascinating advanced math!