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Direct linkReiter, Harold; Holshouser, Arthur; Vennebush, Patrick – Mathematics Teacher, 2012
Getting students to think about the relationships between area and perimeter beyond the formulas for these measurements is never easy. An interesting, nonroutine, and accessible problem that will stimulate such thoughts is the Lattice Octagon problem. A "lattice polygon" is a polygon whose vertices are points of a regularly spaced array.…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Plane Geometry, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
