SCENARIO: "Since the public is becoming increasingly concerned about the impact that food packaging is having on the environment, the president of the Chocolate Company, The Sweet Bite, has called a crisis management meeting of her strategy team. Sales of the company's signature chocolate bar, the Chocolongo, have plummeted since a recent article named the company as the largest producer of packaging waste in the chocolate bar industry. This is very distressing news for the company. Before the appearance of the article, the Chocolongo Bar had always met with rave reviews because of its unique long, thin shape.""The president wants to continue providing her loyal customers with the same volume of chocolate while reducing the amount of packaging used. Therefore, her strategy team must determine a different format for the bar. To preserve some similarity between the original Chocolongo Bar and the new one, the team leader requires that the new bar have only a single wrapping. No additional sleeve is to be used. The team must provide proof that the selected format will result in the least amount of packaging. A member of the strategy team has asked our class for assistance with this challenge."
THE TASK 
"Your team has 36 interlocking cubes, which represent the total volume of a Chocolongo Bar. Your task is to work with the 36 interlocking cubes to find all other possible formats for the new and improved bar. For shipping and storage purposes, the final product must be in the form of a rectangular prism."“You will be working in teams of four. As a first step, you will each work independently to contribute to this group blog in the comment section just below, noting every possible format for the new Chocolongo Bar and identifying the total surface area. During sharing, you will compare your possibilities with those of your team members and determine which format best meets requirements."
We could try making rectangular prisms in as many sizes as we can until we fin the one way that works best. Keiko
ReplyDeleteThat's a good idea, Keiko. My only fear is that we spend to much time trying all of the posibilities. Kaiden
ReplyDeleteI agree with Keiko because if we test out different rectangular prisms instead of just thinking of what dimensions it should have, then we will be able to compare the different rectangular prisms and see the one that would make the most sense. Futhermore it would be a really easy and quick way to solve the problem!
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Sometimes the right thing to do is a crazy one. So I think as a possibility we should test any idea we invent or come up with to see if it will work. Quincy
ReplyDeleteOnce we get together and start using the cubes, I think it will be easier to solve this question. But the question wants us to solve the least amount of packaging and for this we need to look at the surface area for each of the dimensions of volume. V = l x w x h; A = l x w for each of the sides because a rectangular prism has 6 sides. That was a really good piece of information in the question. We should also use info, what, show and state again. It worked for us last time.
ReplyDeleteToday, our group did a good job on the poster. When we filled out the evaluation sheets, we were not done showing our work. I think that some of our answers would change if we were to have filled out the sheets after we finished our poster. This is because, in the end, despite changing our answer (which consumed time), we showed our work using pictures, numbers and words, and provided a statement that answered and related to the question. Holly.
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