{"id":712,"date":"2013-10-08T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T00:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=712"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:12:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:12:48","slug":"monday-math-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/monday-math-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Math Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>[This is a back-issue of one of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/newsletter\">this site&#8217;s newsletters<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a nice math puzzle: Can you find a rectangle whose area equals its perimeter?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ok, so that question doesn&#8217;t quite make sense &#8211; areas can&#8217;t equal lengths. However, once you&#8217;ve chosen some unit, say parsecs for example, you can look for a rectangle whose perimeter is some number of parsecs, and whose area is the same number of square parsecs.<\/p>\n<p>Have a go at this puzzle, and see how many rectangles like this you can find. Next week, I&#8217;ll show you one way to solve it, with a link to right-angled triangles.<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re solving that, would you like to make a hexahexaflexagon? What&#8217;s that? You don&#8217;t know what the heck&#8217;s a hexahexaflexagon? <a href=\"http:\/\/spoonful.com\/crafts\/hexaflexagons-magical-math-paper-toys\">This article will tell you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See you next week!<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<br \/>\nMichael Hartley<\/p>\n<div class=\"emailfooter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This is a back-issue of one of\u00a0this site&#8217;s newsletters] Here&#8217;s a nice math puzzle: Can you find a rectangle whose area equals its perimeter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}