A Mathematical Fable

What did the king want to do with his land?

• Sell it

• Partition it

• Expand it

• Donate it

What shape was the largest piece of land?

• Square

• Circle

• Rectangle

• Triangle

What did the counsellor suggest the king keep for himself?

• The circular piece

• The smallest square

• The triangular piece

• The largest square

What concept did the counsellor explain to the king regarding scaling?

• Division

• Similarity

• Subtraction

• Addition

What did the king ask the counsellor about the angles of the triangle?

• How many angles it had

• What type of angles they were

• If they were obtuse

• If they were equal

What did the surveyor tell the king about his 'squares'?

• They were actually circles

• They were actually triangles

• They were actually blobs

• They were actually rectangles

What did the counsellor call the concept of proving the Pythagorean theorem for all blobs?

• Blob Scaling

• Blob Theory

• Blob Similarity

• Blob Pythagorean Theorem

What did the king ask the counsellor to show him on the third day?

• The Blob Pythagorean Theorem

• A Right-Angled Triangle

• A Circle

• A Square

What did the counsellor draw to explain the Blob Pythagorean Theorem to the king?

• A Circle

• A Line

• A Triangle

• A Square

What did the counsellor use to explain the concept of division to the king?

• Similarity

• Subtraction

• Addition

• Multiplication