Math Around Us

This Kidproj project ended in 1998.

4.Activity: Mapping It Out

Title: Mapping It Out
Start Date: January1
End Date: April 1
Summary:This one is a bit more involved and requires interaction and use of mail and/or transmitting of Gifs.

1. Each school draws out their site plan, including things that could be seen from an aerial view. (Using cm. graph paper)
2. Students divide the drawing up into quadrants and then write up a description of the site, quadrant by quadrant...to send to the list.
3. Participant schools take the written directions, and translate them into site maps on their end.
4. When School A has completed drawing rendition of School B's site, they send it to School B (with a sealed drawing of School A's site). They follow this procedure for each school that they get a written description of.
5. Each school draws a computer rendition of their site to go up on the web for comparison.
Schools may need to communicate with each other for further details or explanations, should written descriptions be weak. In this project, they'd be using estimation in linear measurement, drawing to scale, proportion, writing in math.

This page is posted by Mickie Flores-Ward, and was last updated on August 28,1998.
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