Learning activity Power in the community

Grade 7s continue to work on awesome and detailed Geocity's.

The first problem question to complete. Pick one of your rectangular prism buildings.
You need to paint the outside of the building.
How much paint will you need?
How much will it cost you?

---What strategy will you use to solve the problem?--
What do you know? What do you need to know?     

Hint: 1 litre of paint = 5 square metres

Second problem. You need to wallpaper the inside walls of your entire triangular prism structure.   How many wallpaper rolls? How much will it cost you?

Third problem.
You have had $10,000 donated to you to build a pool.
Where would you put the pool in your city? Why?
What would the dimensions of the pool be.
How much water would the pool hold?

7 - Finish speech writing and recording.
Project - Power in the community start
Begin a recount (A Day in the Life of my Geocity...)


8 Finish How to: writing
Choose a multimedia format to display your How to using visuals (start), record the audio of your how to:
Project - Power in the community start

Math 8 final day trails
Patterning and Algebra in the real world continue tomorrow