What's a Fair Share?
Six Friends want to share a 9x9 inch chocolate sheet cake. the cake has butter cream icing evenly spread around the sides and on the top (there is no icing on the bottom). How can they cut the cake so that each person receives an equal share of both icing and cake?
This is a great problem solving question because student must realize that this problem is dealing with area. They must also incorporate the area of a triangle formula to help solve this problem.