Cup Stacking Challenge

I'm pedagogy a chemical scientific discipline degree this twelvemonth for the commencement time. My degree is made upwards of all juniors as well as seniors alongside the exception of i sophomore. I taught nearly every unmarried i of these students equally freshmen inwards Algebra 1. This agency that they've seen most of my tried as well as truthful first-week of schoolhouse activities before. I decided to stimulate got this equally an chance to crusade out unopen to novel ideas that I'd seen online exactly never tried. One of my favorites to trial from this experimenting was the Cup Stacking Challenge. This is a definite keeper of an activity!

Each grouping received i rubberband, a slice of string (2 ft long) for each fellow member of the grouping (2 pieces of string per soul for groups of alone 2), 6 cups, as well as a deck of challenge cards that I printed from here.

I ready a timer for 10 minutes as well as challenged groups to run through equally many of the challenges equally possible inwards that time.

The crucial rule: students are alone allowed to impact the string. They can't impact the rubberband or the cups.

It was super-fun to lookout the groups progress from "This is impossible" to "Let's crusade this" to "Oooooh!" to "This is easy" to "Uh oh. What are nosotros going to create now?'

The final few challenge cards instructed groups to create it without whatever verbal communication. They flora this super difficult as well as kept accidentally talking.

Here's a video I took of i of my groups:

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