Barter Puzzle

Barter Puzzle

This time for the PPD session we had an interesting work. It is Barter Puzzle by name.

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. 

Everyone got together and tried to remake the picture with the pieces. And we could find some of the 10 pieces which were mixed with another group's pieces. But remaking the puzzle was bit difficult because the pieces are too small and there were about 95 pieces. So could not finish the work on the first day itself. So our madam told us to number the pieces that we managed to gather correctly. We numbered the pieces and put them into the envelop and gave to our madam.

On the second day our first task is to regather the pieces that we gathered on the first day. It took about 45 minutes to gather those pieces. and then the hard part came. We had to gather other pieces too. We worked on our task on the rest of our time but unfortunately we couldn't remake the picture gathering all the pieces with the given time.

By participating in this activity we learned to 

• Communicate properly
• Negotiate with others
• Work with a team
• Respect others' ideas
• Accomplish a given task in a limited time