This is one of a series of problems designed to develop students' team working skills. Other tasks in the series can be found by going to this article.

Doughnut Percents - printable dominoes
Doughnut Percents - printable rule cards 
Doughnut Percents - printable hint cards

What are you aiming to do?

Every member of the team must end up with a set of four dominoes which join together to form a "doughnut" where touching ends have equal value. For example:

The task is only successfully completed when everyone on the team has completed their domino doughnut.

Players pass dominoes to other team members in order to help one another complete their doughnut.

• Each member of the team starts with four dominoes in front of them.
• The dominoes in front of each person should be visible to everyone.
• Team members can only give dominoes; they cannot take dominoes from someone else.
• Each team member must have at least two dominoes in front of them at all times.
• No one can talk or give non-verbal signals to other members of the team.

Use an observer to check that the team obeys the rules and to keep a record of when members of the team help someone else (rather than, for example, when they just pass a piece on without looking at what the other person or team actually needs).

Observers can place one of the hint cards in the middle, if after a period of five minutes the team is not making any progress.