Puzzle: Transforming Toothpicks by Twos
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Arrange 12 toothpicks on your desk to form the shape shown below.

Warm-Up Challenges

  • Remove two toothpicks to leave exactly four congruent triangles.
  • Remove two toothpicks to leave three congruent triangles and two congruent parallelograms.
  • Remove two toothpicks to leave two congruent triangles and two congruent parallelograms.
  • Remove two toothpicks to leave exactly three congruent triangles and a parallelogram.

Make a sketch of each solution you discover on the back of this paper. There may be more than one way to solve a challenge.

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