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."
"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."
This would be a great challenge working with our group again for the last time. I think we should apply the volume formula l x w x h and see how many ways we can order the interlocking cubes giving us the answer of 36 in a rectangular prism. JESSICA V
ReplyDeleteJessica is right! Working with our group again for the last time will be fun. We did a good job the last time and I think we have learned a lot since then. We will definitely do a good job solving this problem and sharing our solution on the blog. I don't know if we are supposed to find the surface area too?
ReplyDeleteThis is probaly on the demanding side but with help from lesson 4&5, unit 7&8 will be just find.Working with mass,area and surfacearea
ReplyDeletewill make it easier to get the corret answer.
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working with a group is great because it's a great way to solve problems with support from aother people and agreat way to improve our team work this us a great challenge for us and this was fun making a math blog thanks mrs.T :o) Troy
ReplyDeleteWe need to find the different dimensions that give us the answer of 36 so some will be 18x2 6x6 4x9 1x36 and 3x12 and maybe there is more that get the right answer. JESSICA V
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