After attempting to teach my group how to solve a rubik's cube in ten minutes, one thing is clear: it takes WAY longer than 10 minutes to learn how to solve a rubik's cube. I thought, "hey, it takes me two minutes to solve this thing, they should be able to follow my moves if I slow it down by a factor of five."
Boy, was I ever wrong. They didn't even know what the "green side" was. I said, "see this side with the green in the middle? This is the green side. Move this green and orange piece right here." Seemed simple to me. What happened? They couldnt remember which side was the green side. They moved the wrong piece. They moved the right piece to the wrong place. Everything that could possibly go wrong, went wrong. Every mistake that could be made, was made. Every instruction was messed up somehow.
Are these people stupid? No, they all have degrees in math, they're very smart. I guess I'm the stupid one for thinking that it could be taught so quickly. It's a good lesson in patience, anyway. When I try to teach more complicated concepts to much younger people, there will surely be even more chaos.
The group's feedback pretty much matched my own views. They complimented me on my helpful teaching but agreed that 10 minutes was far too short a time to learn the cube.
Failure as this was, we all learned an important lesson in patience.
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