Take-Home Assessment for Patterns
Problem Statement- There is a cube that is 5 inches long on every side the large cube is made up of 1 inch smaller cubes, and each smaller cube is 1 inch on every side. Someone paints the outside of the cube and the paint doesn’t seep to the inside. How many of the smaller cubes have any paint on them at all. How many of the smaller cubes have just one face painted? How many of the smaller cubes have two faces painted. Answer the question for three, four, five, and six.
Process- First I knew I needed to figure out how many cubes were in the entire cube. This would be the volume of the cube. In order to find the volume you take the length times width times height. 5 * 5 * 5 = 125.
Then I needed to find out how many of the smaller cubes had any paint on them at all. I started out by using a drawn cube to help me organize and count. I started with the corners of the cube to see how many of the corners were painted. There are 8 corners.......
Join Now or Login to view the rest of this paper.
Approximate Word Count: 479
Approximate Pages: 2 (260 words per double-spaced page) |