Checkerboard Squares POW

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IAG 1H POW # 3: Checkerboard Squares

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1. Problem Statement: You need to find the number of squares in an 8 by 8 square. You also need to find a pattern for finding the number of squares in any size square.

2. Process: Well to sovle this problem, I first made and 8*8 chart. Checkerborad Squares Diagram 1.png

I then found a 1 by 1 square in the box. I marked the squares in the square in the square with X’s. I can also start one on the 2nd row.

Checkerborad Squares Diagram 2.png

I then figured I could do this for all 64 squares. I then moved onto 2*2 squares.

Checkerborad Squares Diagram 3.png

I then did another 2 by 2 chart. I can also have squares overlap others. I then figured out that I could not start a 2*2 square of the last row and column of the chart. I could fit only 7 rows by 7 columns of 2*2 squares, for a total of 49 squares.

Checkerborad Squares Diagram 4.png

I then repeated that 1 more time to make sure. I am guessing that there will be 36, 3*3 squares in this 8*8 square.

Checkerborad Squares Diagram 5.png

I then guessed that there was a pattern. Here is the chart.

Checkerborad Squares Diagram 6.png

At first, I forgot the 4*4 square was 25, so my chart was messed up, but then I corrected my mistake. I added up the number of squares in the 8*8 square, to get …

3. Solution: …204 squares are in an 8*8 square. I also assumed a pattern out of this. If you subtract the length of the number of squares you want to find by the length of the big, total square, and cube that. Here it is spelled out. X=length of smaller cube (as above), T=length of 1 side of the big cube (above it was 8) (T-X)2

Example for finding the number of 7*7 cubes in a 15*15 cube, you do (15-7)2 or 82 or 64. You will need to use all of the X’s from 1 to 15. For example for 15 do

Checkerborad Squares Diagram 7.png

4. Extension: Not necessary to do.

5. Evaluation: Not necessary to do.