Dan Meyer offered this puzzle. The essence of it is, given an arbitrary number for volume, can we build an algorithm that will always generate the integer side lengths that give us the least surface area? He put it in more “real world” terms than that, but that’s the gist. If we did it in two…
Month: September 2015
Choosing a Strategy
(Reposted from my blog for my students) I will often tell my students to select strategies that work best for them to solve a problem, rather than focusing on a single specific strategy. What do I mean by this? I don’t mean that students should use inefficient strategies. One of the things that successful students…