High School Measurement Independent Work Packet

This printable resource includes a task with complete key. Students will have to apply their knowledge of the

1) surface area and

2) volume of prisms, together with basic knowledge of

3) the area of quadrilaterals

...to solve some real-life problems. They will be challenged to think creatively about design and budget issues around a swimming pool, all the time, using their mathematical skills to problem-solve.

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This printable resource includes a task with complete key. Students will use their knowledge of the volume of a prism to do an investigation into fair marketing and sales practices. Lots of containers of consumer products have a "false bottom". Do the retailers cheat us with this or do we get the amount we pay for? Other math topics needed to do this resource successfully include area of circles, ratios and percents.

Nothing compares with ice-cream, and that is why your child will remember this activity for a long time! Did they get cheated with the amount of ice-cream? No better Real-Life Math application than this.

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It is always a good strategy to review essential skills with your students.

This resource (task with complete answer key) takes students through the exciting discovery of the trigonometric ratios sine, cosine and tangent. It solidifies some essential algebraic skills with ratios and fractions. It helps students practice problems with the trig ratios and memorize each ratio. It puts their new found trig knowledge into some real-life problems.

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Discovering trig ratios, practicing fractions, ratios and proportions, solving equations, memorizing the trig ratios, angle of elevation and depression.

Trigonometry, Introduction to Trigonometry, Sine, Cosine, Tangent, Ratios, Angles, Right-Angled Triangles, Opposite side, Adjacent side, Hypotenuse. Solving equations, cross multiplying, measurements, side lengths of triangles, ratio of side lengths.

This project combines 10 mathematical concepts into a hands-on project - building a 3-D strawberry box. The project involves the math of carpentry, dietetics, sales, and data analysis. The math topics involved include:

• The Theorem of Pythagoras
• Geometrical Problem Solving
• Elementary addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with lengths, money etc.
• Volume of prisms
• Ratio, Proportion, Percents, Fractions
• Internet research for appropriate formulas
• Mathematics by trial and error
•  Mathematics should be practical whenever it is at all possible.

Included is a link to a Google Sheet where students can ...

• experience how to "code" how to buy the right amount of wood at the cheapest price.
• make some selections of different lengths of wood to get the best price.

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This printable resource includes a task and complete key. Students use the formula for the volume of a sphere and their knowledge of ratios to compare the sizes of a water tower to the moon to the earth to the sun to the largest star in the known universe (UY Scuti).

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To measure the rain and use it in class for a Real-Life Math task is a wonderful activity! No better Real-Life Math application.

This printable resource includes a task with complete key. Students will calculate the amount of rain that fell in a 20-mile radius if it rains 1 inch. They will then determine what it would cost to bring that amount of water to Athens, GA, in shipping containers from the nearest lake. Students will calculate the volume of a cylinder and a rectangular prism, gas mileage, cost of transport, ratios and proportions and much more.

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No better exercise for children to do to cement all the Math they have learnt thus far! So, be sure to take advantage of this offer, as it could keep them busy for quite a while!

This Real-Life Math bundle contains 29 different tasks, (with complete keys), of where Middle School math gets applied in the real world. It will keep the children fascinated by how all they Math they learn is applicable to the Real World that we live in!

The work will keep your students very engaged since all of it has been tried, tested and refined in my daily classroom over many years. Demonstrate practically to students the answers to the following questions:

• Why do we have to learn this?
• Where is this ever used in real life?

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No better exercise for children to do to cement all the Math they have learnt thus far.

So make sure you take advantage of this incredible resource, as it could keep them busy for quite a while!

These tasks, (with complete keys) help teachers and their students see in a powerful way where and how the math they do gets applied in real life. A sample of the 35 products include:

• Division, prime numbers and Encryption
• Trig and building a lean-to roof.
• Geometric Sequences and Financial investments
• Slope and building the right stairs for old people.
• Statistics and making informed consumer choices.
• Line of best fit and predicting Track world records.
• Logs, Ln, e and Financial investments
• Linear Equations and Optimization (Linear Programming)
• Exponents and Encryption
• Pythagoras and design and gardening

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