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."
"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."
i believe that if we work together and each individually try each possible dimensions as said in group tens comments by steve they are 1x36 and 2x18 and 3x12 or 4x9 and finally 6x6 so we should each try one and we all work together on one because there are 5 possible dimensions (oh man this is really really hard work :) -Ryan
ReplyDeleteThanks Ryan, you have really come up with some good dimensions. This reminds me of multiples ;o)
ReplyDeleteThe smallest amount of surface area I figured out is to make 4 layers of 9 cubes (3x 3). And now individual packing should be included. Alejandra
ReplyDeleteRyan seems to be correct this strategy will save us time which we can use for presantation and that will improve our grade(mark!!!! :) -Gabriel
ReplyDeleteI also agree you have really come up with some good dimensions,inaddition this does reminds me of multiples good job jessica
ReplyDeleteryan is right for the question because when we use that strategy it realy helps to under stand the question better .nicolas
ReplyDeleteOur group did a good job getting to our answer. But, I think we could have done better if we were a bit more on task and not going off topic. I hope tomorrow we can finish our assignment and be on task and everyone is included in the conversation. Alejandra
ReplyDeletei agree with alejandra because our group wasnt the most "on task" and also maybe making the duck wasnt a good idea i mean it was funny but not really working on our work... anyways GREAT JOB GROUP 2!!! -Ryan
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