Three Colour Tower

https://www.youcubed.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/WIM-Three-Block-Towers-Grade-K.pdf

This you will find the recording sheets.

This activity has students exploring shapes and colours. In this activity students investigate the combinations of ways they can make a tower with three different coloured blocks.

How many different towers can you make using one red block, one yellow block, and one green block? They will work with a partner to figure out how many different towers they can build using these three different coloured blocks.

Have students work with a partner to build towers with three different coloured blocks.

How many different towers can they build?

Have students record the towers they have built by colouring them in on the record sheet. How do they know they have found all of them?

Invite students to share with the class the different towers they have made.

Enabling Prompt 1: Recording sheets

Extending Prompts: How do you know you have all combinations?

Extending Prompt 2: Now try this with 4 blocks or even 5!