Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Rubik's Cube and problem solving

One of the difficulties of solving a problem is to overcome the fear that we don't understand what is in front of us. A mathematical problem if full of symbols that may be unclear as to their meaning. A typical response is: I can't do that. Today's lesson is to begin to learn how to overcome that fear.

Task: click on the link to the right and type s to begin the game; when you think you see a pattern that will lead you to solving Rubik's Cube then post a comment.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

the way i got it was by switching up the color sides and working with the "s" button as i moved it along....it was kind of easy-frances

Anonymous said...

i think the cub works around the center so wat ever color is in the middle that is the side of the color

Anonymous said...

II THINNK THAT THE PUZZLE WAS A LITTLE BIT HARD BUT II STILL FIGURE IT OUT ........

Anonymous said...

igk i just tried 2 get all da colorz 2 geter n u helped me in da end

Anonymous said...

I HAD TO MOVE IT A COUPLE OF TIMES TO GET IT RIGHT ... NOT THAT HARD !

Anonymous said...

This was a good activity