Friday,+August+6

= • How will you organize your work to find the answer? (strategy) • How will you know that your answer is correct? • How will you know that it is the only possible answer? • If there is more than one answer, how will you know you have them all? • What if...? = 7. Mindjolt Games (facebook) has a game called “Cube Crash” in which the object is to clear a grid by clicking on groups of adjacent squares. There must be at least three adjacent squares in order to score. Three squares score 55 points, four squares score 90 points, 5 squares score 135 points, and 6 squares score 190 points. Look for a pattern and determine how to calculate scores for any number of adjacent squares.

Related question: Which way would score higher: two sets of six adjacent squares (2 x 190) or one set of 12 adjacent squares?