SCENARIO:"Since the public is becoming increasingly concerned about the impact that food packaging is having on the environment, the president of the Chocolate Company, The Sweet Bite, has called a crisis management meeting of her strategy team. Sales of the company's signature chocolate bar, the Chocolongo, have plummeted since a recent article named the company as the largest producer of packaging waste in the chocolate bar industry. This is very distressing news for the company. Before the appearance of the article, the Chocolongo Bar had always met with rave reviews because of its unique long, thin shape.""The president wants to continue providing her loyal customers with the same volume of chocolate while reducing the amount of packaging used. Therefore, her strategy team must determine a different format for the bar. To preserve some similarity between the original Chocolongo Bar and the new one, the team leader requires that the new bar have only a single wrapping. No additional sleeve is to be used. The team must provide proof that the selected format will result in the least amount of packaging. A member of the strategy team has asked our class for assistance with this challenge."
THE TASK 
"Your team has 36 interlocking cubes, which represent the total volume of a Chocolongo Bar. Your task is to work with the 36 interlocking cubes to find all other possible formats for the new and improved bar. For shipping and storage purposes, the final product must be in the form of a rectangular prism."“You will be working in teams of four. As a first step, you will each work independently to contribute to this group blog in the comment section just below, noting every possible format for the new Chocolongo Bar and identifying the total surface area. During sharing, you will compare your possibilities with those of your team members and determine which format best meets requirements."
"Your team has 36 interlocking cubes, which represent the total volume of a Chocolongo Bar. Your task is to work with the 36 interlocking cubes to find all other possible formats for the new and improved bar. For shipping and storage purposes, the final product must be in the form of a rectangular prism."“You will be working in teams of four. As a first step, you will each work independently to contribute to this group blog in the comment section just below, noting every possible format for the new Chocolongo Bar and identifying the total surface area. During sharing, you will compare your possibilities with those of your team members and determine which format best meets requirements."
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ReplyDelete-Kyla
That is a good strategy, but I don't know if we are supposed to find volume of the chocolate or the area of the packaging or both?
ReplyDeleteWe are supposed to find the surface area of the chocolate bar once you have the dimensions of the bar. And the area of the chocolate bar is supposed to equal 36cm2.
ReplyDeleteI thought the volume of the chocolate bar was 36 cm3 and one we organized different dimensions for the chocolate bar we had to find the surface area for the packaging. Remember, the question wanted the least amount of packaging because the company had alot of waste?
ReplyDeleteI read the question a few times, and after the third time I beleieve the goal we intend to accive is find the volume and mass of the bar to calculate the new geometric shaped packaging that will be put on the chocolate bar.
ReplyDeleteRemember, we have to reduce the amount of packaging, not to reduce the actual chocolate bar.
ReplyDelete-Chloe :)
So, if the company changed the chocolate bar to a geometric shape with an area of 36cm2 they would be using less packaging paper and the enviroment would get better and better.
ReplyDeletenathaniel
Well, i think we should first find the surface area of the chocolongo bar, then then find the area and volume of the rectanguler prism shaped packaging. Also, to reduce the compliants of all the people saying that it's not envoirmentally friendly they can make the packaging out of recycled paper and make that paper thiun so the sweet bite can have lots of extra packaging.-Salena
ReplyDeleteI agree we will have to try as manny 3-d shapes as we can to find the sa of the candy bar
ReplyDeletejahkobi