Cameron from Quenn of the Apostles School
sent in the following;
Everything can be done, as hard as it may seem, except for the
hexagon.
When I couldn't figure it out I asked my mum and she said that
my answer was the best.
You will need to use three half cut hexagons and one full
one.
You put the full hexagon in the centre, next you put two halves
at the bottom making sure they fit, do the same to the top,
next put the last two halves at the sides. See how there are
still gaps? This is not possible without more hexagons.
We had separate solutions sent in from
Fulham Cross Girls' School from the following pupils, Tianah,
Iania, Hagar, Alaa, Rachea, and Jessica. Here are two of
them:
Firstly, with your first shape, in your head or on a piece of
paper build up your shape e.g four squars as a cube. Then see
if it matches with your big shape and count how much shapes
there was in your shape your big shape.
I think that you put the the small square inside the big square
in any of the corners that's two squared. If you put the small
rectangle in the top/bottom left/right corner that's two
squared too.
Well done ALL of you!