This activity provides students with a range of guillotine problems to help develop spatial awareness and the ability to decompose a shape. Students learn to visualise the results of the cuts they plan to make, and sequence the cuts correctly to decompose the larger shape. As the shape is broken down into smaller pieces, the task of decomposing becomes easier.
Guillotine problems can also be used to introduce students to optimization problems, where the goal is to find the most efficient way to cut a material (like paper, wood, or metal) to minimize waste. This ties into real-world applications in manufacturing and design.
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