The image can be use to teach students to create exponential functions, arithmetic series, description of the relationship of the different colors. Students make a list of the patterns in the cubes to help them create an equation that represent each of the cubes; to expand their thinking, they can create an equation that would give how many cubes of a given color depending on the area of the cube or the number of cubes used. To make the activity more engaging, providing students with wooden squares to recreate this image, would help students deepen their understanding of the problem. The image can be to teach ratios/proportions between objects.

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