Time for MATH MINUTE! (provide your favorite theme music
here).
Get out
your paper & pencil, because I have a new puzzle for you!!
Responses & Hints: PUZZLE #98 What is the basic shape?
If
you have different shapes made of rubbery or clay-like material, like a line I
and a curve C, it is sometimes possible to change one shape into the other
without tearing or cutting either of the objects but by just bending or molding
the objects. In the case of the line I and the curve C, we can make the C
shaped like an I by straightening it out. We could also make the line I curved
to look like the C shape. So we say that they have the same shape.
Similarly,
if we had a shape like a square box and a circle, then we could make the sides
of the box curved to get the circle shape. So they have the same shape.
Now
suppose you have the capital letters of the alphabet in the following font:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Can
you figure out which letters have the same shape?
Here is a chart with
the different shapes listed by their basic shape (notice that the G is a little
different, but the shape is the same):
Have
fun!
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See you next time on MATH MINUTE! (theme music fades out here).