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Phase 1: Setting the stage
The teacher demonstrates the activity using people cutouts on an overhead projector.
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Phase 2: Doing the activity
Part 1: The students work on solving the 3 person puzzle using the textbook as a game board.
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Phase 3: Analysis & debriefing
The students share their findings and discuss what they have learned.
"You take the number of moves and multiply it by itself and add the number of people." |
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Part 2: The teacher has the students use the computer to do the activity.
The students work on the 3 person puzzle using the Java applet. |
The teacher leads the students in a discussion of what happens in the puzzle. |
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Part 3: The students organize the information using a table such as this.
The students work to fill in the results after doing the puzzle.
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