About This Lesson
Have you ever tried to solve a Rubik’s Cube? How far did you get? On StoryMakers Rocco chats with Kerry Aradhya, author of the new picture book biography, ERNŐ RUBIK AND HIS MAGIC CUBE, all about the inventor of this fun, frustrating, mind-bender of a puzzle. Watch to get Kerry’s Top 5 Facts about the Rubik’s Cube, learn about other kinds of shape puzzles, and how the first ever Rubik’s Cube was created!
The Rubik’s Cube celebrates it’s 50th Anniversary in 2024! In that time, people have solved the puzzle in weird and wonderful places around the world — even underwater!
About the Book
This picture book biography of Ernő Rubik, creator of the Rubik’s Cube, reveals the obsession, imagination, and engineering process behind the creation of this bestselling puzzle celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024.
A solitary child, Ernő Rubik grew up in post-World War II Hungary, curious about puzzles, art, nature, and their underlying patterns and structures. As a professor of architecture, and in a quest to help his students understand three-dimensional objects and how they move, he fashioned a cube made up of smaller cubes that twisted and turned without breaking, unexpectedly inventing the most popular puzzle in history!
