Pirate Challenge 3: Create a Marshmallow Tower #mlap14

THE CHALLENGE

How can your team of buccaneers 

create a tower out of tooth picks and marshmallows?

1. Create a free standing tower out of 30 tooth picks and 30 mini marshmallows

2. Tower must be able to stand on its own

3. Using the hand length of the smallest bucaneer in your team. How many hands high is your tower?

4. Place a pirate flag on the top!

5. You have 25 bandit minutes

After the challenge we will...

think, share and tweet about four questions:

1. What did you find the hardest thing about the challenge?
2. What would you do differently next time?
3. Where is the math in the Pirate Challenge?
4. Who or what inspired your ideas?

Click here to contribute your reflections onto a Google Form

THE ACTION

2015

Year 5/6 @4cbhereworth Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

First Attempt

Year 5 @HNPSroom1 Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

First Attempt

Year 5/6/7/8 Ridgway School, Wellington, New Zealand

First Attempt

Year 1/2 @Rm3Normanby, Normanby School, Taranaki, New Zealand

First Attempt

 

THE ACTION

2014


Year 6 Ridgway School, Wellington, New Zealand
First Attempt

@Year2QMC Queen Margaret College, Wellington, New Zealand

First Attempt

@nzquirkymama #homeschooling Christchurch, New Zealand


First Attempt

@MsLombardoClass St. Rita CCSD, Calgary, AB, Canada

First Attempt

@Mr Ira Cross Pickerington Local schools, Ohio, USA
First Attempt

@MathsPirates Koraunui School, Wellington, New Zealand
First Attempt

Second Attempt

Third Attempt

Fourth Attempt

Fifth Attempt

@Rm1Koraunui Koraunui School, Wellington, New Zealand
First Attempt

OOOPS WHERE ARE YOUR IMAGES?

Second Attempt

 @knuicurious Koraunui School, Wellington, New Zealand

First Attempt

Second Attempt

 @BeccaSweeney @TogiLemanu @coreeducation Core Educatioin New Zealand

First Attempt

 Retweeted by Maths Pirates NZ

Rebbecca Sweeney ‏@BeccaSweeney  Feb 14

@MathsPirates here is @coreeducation attempt from @BeccaSweeney @TogiLemanu Look at the spare marshmallows!! pic.twitter.com/hhtf7JOggj

@2ndgradetweets Bubbly
First Attempt

@66_pixie Cambridge Schol, Cambridge, New Zealand
First Attempt

Watch their SWASHBUCKLING AWESOME movie 
Click here!
 Cambridge East School - Pirate Challenge Movie

Big ups on the idea improvement! 

(Note: The Pirate hubby test - well under way!)

Second Attempt

IDEA IMPROVEMENT

Hardest thing about the challenge?

@MathsPirates

First Attempt

1. Keeping the tower standing

2. Making sure the flag did not fall out

3. Trying not to eat the marshmallows!

Second Attempt
1. Trying to make it  huge
2. Keeping it upright - Leah & Ihaia
3.Making it strong - Rangimarie

Third Attempt
1. hard to make the tower stand up
2. Too many holes in the marshmallows make them soft and squishy
3. Marshamllows were too sticky
4. worknig as a team was hard. We each had different ideas.

 @knuicurious  

First attempt

1. Getting the flag to stand up

2. Working as a team was hard

3. The tower kept leaning over. Trying to keep it standing up!

@BeccaSweeney

First Attempt

1. Making it strong enough to get tall!

What would you do differently next time?

@MathsPirates

First Attempt

1. Use big marshmallows

Second Attempt
1. Use a pentagon as a based - Ihaia
2. Try and make a circle and make it more like Seth's on Rm 6 - Devin & Ihaia

Third Attempt

1. Using big marshmallows. We want to use small ones again.

2. Work on our own please!

 @knuicurious 

First Attempt

1. Work better as a team

2. We would use more triangles because they are strong

@BeccaSweeney

First Attempt

1. Pland and design first

Where is the Math in the Pirate Challenge?

 @MathsPirates

First Attempt

1. All the shapes

2. Counting the rakau and the marshmallows

Second Attempt
1. Making triangles and squares
2. Being able to make a hexagon
3, making the tower the biggest you can

Third Attempt
1. Geometry. Shapes squares, triangles, circles, diamonds
2, The number of marshamallows used.
3. How many minutes we took to build a tower

@knuicurious 

First Attempt

1. Triangles, squares, rectangles and lines. Thats Geometry.

THE ACTION

2013

Maths Like a Pirate

Pirate Challenge No.3 Trailer

Creating a trailer was Inspired by 
Drew Frank and Stacy Brown's work

@MathsPirates First Attempt

                                        @MathsPirates Koraunui School, Wellington, New Zealand

                                      @MathsPirates Koraunui School, Wellington, New Zealand

@MathsPirates 2nd Attempt

@MathsPirates 3rd Attempt 

Check out Davis Academy's 

SWASHBUCKLING AWESOME movie trailer!

                                       Lee Edelman's  Class at Davis Academy Atlanta, USA

                                        @JulieWeiser's Class at Davis Academy Atlanta, USA

                                       Mrs Mayo's  class at Davis AcademyAtlanta, USA

   

                                                     Mrs Plum's Class in Michigan, USA

      @Room11GMS  West Coast, South Island, NZ

@smarticool Wellington, NZ

IDEA IMPROVEMENT

Hardest thing about the challenge?

* Keep the tower standing up - Leah

* Putting the flag on - Natalie

* How to make it strong - Ella

* How to keep building up - Devon

Mrs. Plum ‏@mrsplumsclass2 Nov

@MathsPirates @ugafrank @MrsMayosclass @JulieWeiser A1 Making it stand up tall (marshmallows were gooey), making flag, falling down.

What would you do differently next time?

* Make it stronger - Mika

* Help my partner more - Devon

* Use a triangle as a base - Cadan

* Connect all our structures together to make a big one! - Cadan

Mrs. Plum ‏@mrsplumsclass2 Nov

@MathsPirates @ugafrank @MrsMayosclass @JulieWeiser A2 Use bigger marshmallows, use thicker toothpicks, group the toothpicks or marshmallows

Where is the Math in the Pirate Challenge?

* There are squares everywhere! - Devon

* Counting the sticks and the marshmallows - Natalie

Mrs. Plum ‏@mrsplumsclass2 Nov

@MathsPirates @ugafrank @MrsMayosclass @JulieWeiser A3 count marshmallows/toothpicks, use time for the timer, measuring using hands!

     

This Challenge is inspired by:

 Tom Wujec's Marshmello challenge

Tony Wagners book Creating Innovators

Q: How important is innovation?

Tony Wagner replies,  "How important is oxygen to life?"

Play

Pirates love marshmallows and with the idea that they are crocodile brains!

Passion

Pirates are passionate about creating and building with yummy marshmallows! 

Purpose

Pirates need to know how to work in a team and negotiate their ideas with others.

Pirates find listening to other pirates very tricky!