P2S were set a challenge to work as a team and work out how to make a 3D cube using only toothpicks and marshamallows.

Each team decided which job each person should have, a timekeeper to check the clock, a facilitator to help others, a quality checker to ensure fairness and keep everyone on track and a reporter to share at the end, with the rest of the class, how their group managed it.

Miss Slamin set aside 15 minutes for this challenge but they only needed 5!

Lots of discussion went on about corners, sides, faces, 3D, squares, same size, equal… and the groups were working like real mathematicians.

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