Activity - Pattern Recognition

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Patterns among different problems- Baking a Cake

Decomposing the task of baking a cake would highlight the need for us to know the
solutions to a series of smaller problems:

• what kind of cake we want to bake?


• what ingredients we need and how much of each?
• how many people we want to bake the cake for?
• how long we need to bake the cake for?
• when we need to add each ingredient?
• what equipment we need?
Once we know how to bake one particular type of cake, we can see that baking another
type of cake is not that different - because patterns exist.

For example:

• Each cake will need a precise quantity of specific ingredients


• Ingredients will get added at a specific time
• Each cake will bake for a specific period of time
Once we have the patterns identified, we can work on common solutions between the
problems.

Reference : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zxxbgk7/revision/3

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