Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Student Solutions: Chicken Fingers!

Students have submitted solutions to the first I Love Math Problem for 2019.  See last week's post for the challenge.  Students worked in teams for about 8 days to solve the Chicken Finger problem.  Then they prepared a submission to communicate their thinking, and convince the judges that their solution is correct.

The submission phase is where all team members can contribute their gifts and skills.  A good submission might require an artist, a sculptor, a programmer, a writer, a good editor, and certainly a good mathematician or two. 

One team decided to write an essay.  Here is the cover page, and one of the inside pages with a graph that showed their work:



Another group created a poster with an array of charts to show the progression of their thinking:


One Eight Grade team decided a "game box" was the best way to let others experiment with the mathematical logic, and come to understand the crux of the challenge!


Stay tuned for the next I Love Math challenge, and forthcoming student work.