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Students may individually or in groups play this online game, which asks them to use the least number of pours out of their 3 uniform informal options to fill up differently shaped 3-dimensional containers. A leaderboard can be deployed to see who is able to use the least pours across each shape.
Students here are introduced to more complex concepts of uniform informal measurement in a controlled environment, while being forced to engage in capacity estimation across increasingly difficult and abstract shapes.
Critical Thinking:
Students will be forced to estimate abstractly prior to and while filling the shape, learning which of the 3 pour options is perhaps strongest and applying this across differing shapes.
Communication:
In groups, students will need to articulate their solutions key language to prevent the shape from overflowing or being overfilled.
Collaboration:
In groups, students can assist in teaching each other how this can be achieved in the fewest pours.
Enabling Prompt:
One of the 3 choices of pours can be eliminated, reducing the complexity of estimating which combination of choices will result in the least pours to fill the shape.
Extension:
Students can try and see if they can generalise or create a rule for estimating the number of pours and test this across the game.
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