Resumen de Solutions: Math is beautiful

Ed Enns (ed. lit.)

• Two different solution contexts for the Math Is Beautiful investigation are described here: Ali Duncan's third-grade class at Prueter Public School in Kitchener, Ontario, solved the problem during a mathematics class; and Cynthia Hockman-Chupp's son in the second grade explored the investigation while on a plane trip during a family vacation. In both cases, students were asked to design a stained-glass window using specific criteria related to quadrilaterals. To meet the criteria, students had to consider how many shapes would fill a designated space, how different shapes can fit together to tile a surface, and the properties and attributes of different types of quadrilaterals.