University of Kelaniya: Barter Puzzle

Barter Puzzle

On the 4th of October we had another interesting activity as usual. This time it was a puzzle. At first we were divided in to several groups and one from each team was summoned to the lecturer's table and all were given a piece of cardboard with one side blank and the other side with an image.

For this work we were divided into groups by our madam Ms.Sarasi. There were 4 groups and our group was group 2. Madam called two people from each group and gave them a board to cut into 95 pieces. One person cut it and other one count the pieces and put them in to an envelop. This process was done by all 4 groups.

After cutting the board in to 95 pieces madam took 10 pieces from each group and mixed those pieces with other groups pieces. Our group also had 10 pieces from another group. Then our madam gave us our envelops which included 85 pieces from the board we cut and 10 pieces from another group. And our task is to complete the picture in the board as it was before cutting into pieces.

For that, first we had to get our 10 pieces which were mixed with other groups' pieces. To continue the work we looked at the pieces which were given to us. We recognized the pieces that does not belong to our group. We gathered all those pieces and kept them aside. One of us went to the other groups to find our missing pieces while others kept on working with our puzzle's pieces.

And above all, since the shapes were not regular and the image looked same in most of the places, we found it hard to set the puzzle. And due to this we couldn't complete it with the given time.

And then we numbered the pieces which we had set already and continued the same task on next week and it was 11th of October.

We were able complete the puzzle by 95% and this activity helped us to learn so many things;