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Brainwave 9

These Shoes Are Made for Walking

Shoes
Your task is to sort the shoes the students in your class are wearing into six different categories?
Some obvious ways are materials, sizes and colours but can you find three other ways as well?

Feature Solution

The feature solution for the problem came from Year 4 from Tottenham CS

What did you have to find out?
What types of categories we can put shoes into.

What materials did you use?
Shoes/ pen/ paper.

How did you think? What strategies did you use? How did you solve this problem?
We all took our shoes off and put them in the middle of our circle. We then discussed all the different categories we could put the shoes into.

What answers did you come up with?
Sizes
Brands
Colour
Types - boots/ joggers
Laces/ no laces
New or old
Wheels or no wheels
Material
Smell - smelly or not smelly
Colour of the inside
Where they are made - Indonesia/ Vietnam/ China
Girls or boys
Clean or dirty

Photos from Tottenham CS
Smell Shoes
Smelly and Not Smelly Shoes

Wheels
Wheels and No Wheels

Where made
Where Shoes Were Made

Commendable contributors to the problem were:
Vanessa, Grace & Mikayla from Barham PS
2D from Bourke PS
Laura & Keira from Tooleybuc
Emma & Laura; Isabelle & Neve; Olivia & Jacob; Isaiah; Lachlan; Tyler; Jacob; Kyle; Ellie; Alex from Kempsey East PS

Solutions were also sent in by:
Dylan & Cameron from Shellcove PS