After finishing the mailbox system for Rachel's Level 1 classroom, which looks and works quite well, we've focused on surface area and volume. This has involved: a mini design project that combines creativity, precise calculations, thinking three-dimensionally, and some silliness to create drawings and calculate surface area and volume of such multi-shaped structures as the 'enormous dog-shaped hamster cage', the 'space table', and the 'futuristic space ferret cage'.
We also looked at the significance of the surface area to volume ratio of an object, from igloos to airports, ants to seals, and donuts to water droplets.
And students from both high school math classes worked together to design and build planter boxes to go in front of our high school classroom building. They are at various stages of completion, one that is ready for soil, another quite close, and a third still in the design and layout stages. More to come on this in the upcoming weeks...
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