Cube Puzzle - Lesson Plan

Author:: Eva Bauer-Öppinger, GeoGebra Team, Eva 3D

Topic:: Cube

Short overview

Topic: 3D tessellation, dissecting cubes
Grade, subject: 7th/8th grade (12 years old)
Duration:
Material for students: Link to GeoGebra app, other ressources eg. worksheets
Additional materials: (add this only if additional material is needed eg. 3D printed materials, laptops, 3D printer...)

In this lesson physical and digital resources should be used to develop some constructions of tessellations, especially tessellations of the 3D space. 3D tessellations are connected with the task of dissecting a cube into equal parts. Therefore Dynamic Geometry Environment (DGE) and 3D printing is combined. This is an opportunity to promote open-ended tasks into classrooms and hence enhance students’ creativity.

Prior knowledge of the students

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How to use a GeoGebra application...
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Activity/lesson/workshop sequence

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...needed material and how to use it.
...add applets and describe their functionality. Please consider a proper sizing.
...add link to PDFs for downloading if additional information is needed.

Please use the following structure:

Step 1 (time in minutes): 2D tessellation

Every student gets three square sheet of paper (post-it) an should cut each into 2/3/4 equal pieces. (find GeoGebra Applet)

Step 2 (time in minutes)

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Follow up information

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