Area - squares and rectangles

Which has the greatest area, a circle or a square, inscribed in an isosceles right angle triangle?

In a right-angled tetrahedron prove that the sum of the squares of the areas of the 3 faces in mutually perpendicular planes equals the square of the area of the sloping face. A generalisation of Pythagoras' Theorem.

In how many ways can you halve a piece of A4 paper? How do you know they are halves?

If I use 12 green tiles to represent my lawn, how many different ways could I arrange them? How many border tiles would I need each time?

I cut this square into two different shapes. What can you say about the relationship between them?

What is the largest number of circles we can fit into the frame without them overlapping? How do you know? What will happen if you try the other shapes?

A thoughtful shepherd used bales of straw to protect the area around his lambs. Explore how you can arrange the bales.

Investigate how this pattern of squares continues. You could measure lengths, areas and angles.

What happens to the area of a square if you double the length of the sides? Try the same thing with rectangles, diamonds and other shapes. How do the four smaller ones fit into the larger one?