Dressing Mr.

Cube

Task no. 3

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Challenge
The task was presented as a story: Mr. Cube has just arrived on Earth coming from the Cube Planet and he has no clothes. We have to find as many clothes patterns for him as possible. Each pattern will be made of six squares. We have to make sure he can put on the new clothes.
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Challenge
As a supplementary task: find the zippers of the clothes. The clothes should be coloured in an attractive way. Find the symmetrical patterns. Are they all in pairs? Have you found all the nets? How many are there?

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Trying a net

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Drawing the net

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Look, we have one!

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Some help

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Team work

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Team work 2

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A bit of chaos

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Long way to go

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Is this the same?

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Colours

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Zippers

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A mistake

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A final result

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And another one

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Comments: strong points

Some of the pupils had the idea of using first pins instead of stickers to connect the squares. They grasped the zippers idea very quickly. The approach was different for boys and girls: boys were looking for new nets, while girls were doing the detail part, such as finding the zippers.
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Comments: strong points

Some groups shared roles and therefore worked very quickly. They even expressed the cause of their efficiency: teamwork. They had the idea of having five fixed squares and a mobile one, in order to find more nets. They found the symmetrical nets (brother and sister).
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Comments: weak points

There were very few weak points. One of them was that the time we needed was twice as long as we had planned. A funny one: after finding two symmetrical nets, they turned one of them upside down and said: we have triplets!

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Conclusions
It was a task the pupils particularly enjoyed, despite the time and effort they had to put into it. It took them into 3-dimensional space and had a story attached to it, these are two of the reasons it was so popular.

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