The Triangle and Square Games

These games are fun and easy. All you need to begin playing is ordinary addition. However, you will learn how useful geometry can be to speed you along to the finish line.

Part I: The Triangle Game To start, draw a triangle with all three sides equal (an equilateral triangle) and place a dot at each vertex and at the midpoint of each of the three sides.

Now take the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 and place one number at each of the dots. If you do this haphazardly, you might get something like