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Hayley Poole “What was lacking in the usual approach, even at its best was any sense of genuine enquiry, or any stimulus to curiosity, or an appeal to the imagination. There was little feeling that one can puzzle out an approach to fresh problems without having to be given detailed instructions.” From “Mathematical Puzzling” by A Gardiner - Aspects of Secondary Education, HMSO, 1979 This presentation will cover… The history of the Rubik’s Cube Introduction to group theory Ideas behind solving the cube Erno Rubik Born 13th July 1944 in Budapest, Hungary He is an inventor, sculptor an