Volume – Where are you at? – Year 7 Maths

Volume:

How would you respond to these questions/ statements?

Choose one and discuss with a learning partner.
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  1. Identify how to calculate volume of different rectangular prisms – Here are a variety of rectangular prisms. Calculate the volume of each. Check your answer. How accurate are you?
  2. Explain to someone else how to calculate volume of different rectangular prisms – Write or orally record how you calculate the volume of rectangular prisms.
  3. Use a diagram to explain how to calculate volume of different rectangular prisms – Draw a diagram of
    1. your ideal piece of fudge,
    2. how many pieces would fit in the package and
    3. a diagram to show the dimensions that the package would need to be. Calculate the volume of the single serve and the total package.
  4. Write your own problem involving the calculation of volume of rectangular prisms. Record it for others to challenge themselves with.

 

 

Year 7 Maths – Fudge

Calculate the volume of your piece of fudge. (Challenge: measure dimensions to the nearest millimetre) Record the dimensions and your calculations in your maths book.
How would you present this product for sale? – Consider ingredients, health of individuals, …
Decide on the best size of individual portions.
How many portions in a packet?
What size packet would you need?
Design and make the ideal package for your fudge. (Max. size – A4 sheet of paper)
Display this with a short explanation of your thinking.
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Volume Year 7 Maths

A friend of mine is looking to start her own business and she would like some help from us. She has developed a recipe for a great mouth-watering chocolate fudge. The pieces of fudge will be sold in centimetre size cubes.

She has bought cardboard material to make the boxes to distribute and sell the fudge, but would like some help to work out some different ways of packaging the units.

If her sheets of cardboard are 20cm by 10 cm, and her cutting machine will only cut squares from the corners, how much could each of the boxes hold?

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Maths – Tangrams

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Step by Step Guide here:

Task:
1. Make your own Tangram with a partner, using the foam piece provided. (Be as accurate as you can. There are only enough materials for one piece of foam between two people.)

2. Using all 7 pieces, create interesting designs. Keep a record of each. How many can you come up with?

3. Calculate the area and perimeter of each design. Be efficient with your methods, and show your working out.

4. Add your findings to a table.

Design Perimeter Area

5. Discuss your findings.

Receptions – Making a Video

Over the past few terms students have learned how to use apps like ‘My Story’ and ‘Popplet’ on the iPads to draw, write, speak and photograph their ideas. Now let’s see if we can use video techniques to get our message across.

Storyboarding our ideas:
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Storyboard
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Exploring movement and prepositional language to do with bridges:

over

under

on

off

before

after

in front of

behind

around

through

underneath

atop

below

above

off

on

past

mid way

 

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Technology and circuits/ catalogue maths – By Patrick

When people think of technology they think BIG!, they think of things like factories, power stations really complicated things, but really even little things like torches are technology.

In term two our teacher gave us five two hour lessons to produce a working circuit. Many people chose to create things like torches and lights but I chose to create a tripwire alarm to warn me when my pesky brother or sister tries to get into my room.

After five weeks of work we finally finished our circuits. We all shared our creations.

 

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Catalogue Maths!

In catalogue maths we got to learn about budgets. We drew up a lemonade stand in our books and decided how much money we needed to spend to make the lemonade, then we had to decide how much to price the lemonade.

The next two weeks we had to make up a budget and buy items for a certain event. I chose to buy food for a party.

Then we told everyone what we chose to buy from the magazine we brought together.