For toddler Renée’s Christmas gift, Alex and Leon crafted a puzzle set of wooden blocks.
First, they made a sturdy box with circle, square, and triangle shapes cut in the lid.
To make the blocks large and baby-safe, Alex and Leon bought a 4-foot 2×2 board. Then they asked Uncle Will to help them create a set of special blocks to fit through the holes.
Each block was round and square and triangular, so it could fit exactly through any of the three holes.
How can that be?
To Be Continued…
Read all the posts from the December 2000/January 2001 issue of my Mathematical Adventures of Alexandria Jones newsletter.
CREDITS: “Christmas Tree Closeup” photo by Zechariah Judy via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).
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