Using the interactive App Slice it! Students will be playing a highly addictive game that is really just a bunch of geometric modeling problems. This application gives students a geometric figure and tells them to cut it into a given number of pieces, all with equal areas, using a certain number of lines. Sometimes these pieces will be nearly congruent while other times they will look nothing alike. This lesson will prepare students to play the game using mathematics to obtain better scores and will force them to make connections between the algebra they learned in previous years and the geometry they are now working on. Because this application was made for people of all ages, the lesson itself can be altered for a different target audience with ease.
Slice It! can be found in the google play store and in the iTunes store. The lesson plan and worksheet used in this lesson can be downloaded by clicking on the link below.