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LEGO Smart Creativity Contest Entry By Kirsten Konopaski, Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School
Materials: 20 piece Lego Smart Kit, 1 pair of six sided dice, 24 toothpicks or tacks, scratch paper and a pencil
Setup: Turn each LEGO brick upside down. In teams of two, make sure that each player has 12 upside down (circular holes). Line them up left to right in a line. Rules: Take turns rolling the dice. For each roll perform the following calculation and then the binary translation: Determine the sum of the factorial of the two numbers rolled on the dice. Convert that decimal number to binary. Example: roll dice & get (6 & 2) Answer is: 6! + 2! = 722 (in decimal) Converted is: 1011010010 (in binary) Represent the binary number by placing the tack or toothpick into each hole that represents a ‘1’ and leaving it empty when it represents a ‘0’. The fastest correct answer wins.
Lesson Learned: math skills