On Monday in class we did a race competition using TanGoes. Spatial thinking is not my specialty, but I did better than I expected.
I really pride myself on our performance in the "who can make a gadget that flies the farthest" challenge. After a few so-so ideas and rough models, our team came to the stunning conclusion that we could probably outdo the other teams simply by making something that we can easily throw a long distance, rather than trying to make it self-propelled or transforming, which would have earned us double points.
Some may think that this defeats the purpose of a creative problem solving class, seeing as our final product was a role of tape with streamers attached. I prefer to see it as an efficient assessment of the challenge and understanding of the rules, with an easy solution to the problem at hand. Sometimes the correct solutions are the simple ones.
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