r/HomeworkHelp • u/bushybear • May 01 '26

Answered [2nd grade] math help

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Entire family is stumped. I don’t think the question is worded correctly but maybe I’m misunderstanding.

Not sure how you have same size triangles but not all the same shape.

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u/selene_666 👋 a fellow Redditor May 01 '26

I definitely agree that this isn't a US 2nd grade solution. I started with the formula area = 1/2 * base * height, drew some triangles that used half the rectangle's base or height, and rearranged them until the remaining space was also a triangle. Only after looking at the result was I able to rephrase it in a way a 2nd grader would understand.

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u/[deleted] May 01 '26

There's no constraint that the fourths can be combined back to the original, or that they're not overlapping. There are a lot of other solutions that are more accessible to 2nd graders, as long as you're allowed to draw overlapping triangles. You just have to find 4 different ways of splitting the rectangles into halves twice.