The Cube Challenge
Lesson 5 : 27/03/07
Todays Mission impossible centred around “deciding what the instructions mean”. Once we got together with our thinking partners we were given some complicated instructions to carry out with some books. These activities showed us that firstly we should say what we thought the instructions meant, then agree on what they meant, before actually trying to do what they said !
After these exercises it was on to the mission. This week each pair were given eight cubes identical in size but of differing colours - two red, two blue, two yellow and two orange. We had to make one large cube from the eight small ones but each face had to show four different colours.
It was a lot of fun and not as easy as it sounds. We all found the biggest problem was finding if each of the six faces included the four colours. When we rearranged one face it altered some of the other faces at the same time! However we all managed to find the right pattern in the end. You can see the completed cube and some of us trying to work it out in the photos below.
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Posted: March 27th, 2007 under school.