Boxes and volumes
You all know what a box is. Boxes are more or less everywhere around us: most things you can buy are sold in boxes, stored in boxes or transported in boxes. We even live in 'boxes' (generally called houses).
During the next couple of lessons we are going to look at some of the issues in relation to boxes.
One key issue is the volume of a box, that is, how much can you store within a given box. You know how to calculate the area of a given space, for instance a football field or a room - length x width. Now we have an extra dimension - the height.
But you are also going to work with maths problem solving, visualization, formulas in spreadsheets, and some of the geometry-related calculations that you already know - such as Pythagoras' theorem.
The main objectives of our work are to develop:
- Your general maths competences related to problem solving, reasoning, modeling, and representation
- Specific geometry competences related to area, volume, and calculations
- Competences related to numbers, variables, formulas, and functions
- Competences related to the use of ICT to work with maths problems and issues.
