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Sliding Rectangles
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level 
You could start by drawing a $16$ cm by $24$ cm rectangle and marking off some equally spaced points on the diagonal as shown below. You could then find the areas $A$ and $B$ for the different points and compare them.
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