MATHS

MEASUREMENT PROJECT - YEAR 7 MATHS

Term 4 saw the Year 7 Maths classes complete a Project instead of a Test for our Measurement topic. 

The students really enjoyed the project. Read on for some of their reflections.

Emma Griffingham

Mathematics Teacher

For the last week or two the Year 7s have been completing a measurement learning task. This task was thankfully not a test, but an engaging and creative project! The students paired up with someone for part one of the task to measure some objects around the Oasis. These things could be benches, doors, paths or even the ping pong table! We had to calculate the area, perimeter and even the circumference of these items. 

We then had to make a draft of a tiny home, while also making the measurements to scale. After we finished that we had to start the real base of our tiny home along with walls, roof and a garden. The Year 7s had to colour in the house while also answering questions in the booklet. This project has definitely been the best so far as we've basically only done tests which were really hard. So along with the other Year 7s I think that we can all agree that this was a super fun learning task!

Milla Francis 7B

In the last term of Year 7, the Year 7s completed a creative learning task for Maths. It was a Measurement Project that involved drawing and measuring. It started off with us measuring different shapes like benches, circles, tables and calculating the perimeter and area. After that we had to make a tiny house that was 3D! 

We had to measure it and make it to scale so that it was mini. We drew all sorts of things in our houses to make it look like a real house. In my opinion, I think that was the most fun learning task I've ever done in Maths. I really enjoyed drawing and cutting out the shapes.

Avi Trang 7B

This year we, the Year 7s, had a measurement learning task. Do you want to know what we did? We will be happy to tell! First, our teacher, in my case Mrs Griffingham/Mrs Mir, gave us the booklet. This booklet was packed with guides to help us with our journey. In the end it was filled with all our handwriting, our hard work! 

Next we went outside for our first activity. We collected information like the perimeter and the area of objects, such as tables, gutters and bricks! For our final task, we made a TINY HOUSE!!! Personally, this was the most interesting part of the learning task. Why? We got to make our own tiny house! No way this wouldn't be fun, right? 

After all this finished we moved on to complete the booklet, the last task... We had to do some questions from the book. It wasn't boring, but making the tiny house was way more fun to do and more interesting! We all got some quality time with our friends while working! Next time I would love to create an even bigger house!

Kiichi Usui 7D

In Maths this week we finished our Measurement Project. For this project, there were two parts. We first started by going outside into the Oasis in small groups choosing shapes inside real-life objects to measure. Once we had done our measurements, we wrote down our answers and calculations in our booklet, we also had to draw the shapes to scale. 

Part two was building a Tiny House. To start we were given a gridded paper floor plan to help us plan where the things in our Tiny House would go. We had to try and make everything to scale, imagining we were going to live there. After we completed this we got pieces of paper to complete the walls and floors for our final copies. Subsequently we made sure that all of our booklet was completed with all of the questions, answers and working out shown. 

Throughout this project we were conscious to check the rubic often, ensuring that we could get the best marks possible. This was a superb task that was hands on and an interesting way to do Measurement.  

Ruby Shepherd 7B

For Maths, we worked on a measurement project. We started off by going outside for a few lessons to measure some of the objects near the Oasis with a tape measure. The point was to work out the area and perimeter of objects outside such as the benches and the bricks. The second part of the activity consisted of building a Tiny Home in grids on a sheet of paper we had to build the floor plan of the house and add furniture of accurate size to it. We then had to determine the area and perimeter of each object using a scale of 1cm = 50cm. 

Sophie Wein 7N

Throughout this learning task, I learnt lots of things regarding maths. I learnt how to measure the perimeter and the area of objects, and to work as a team. First, we did Perimeter. We measured three different objects in the Oasis that had a perimeter greater than 100cm. Second, we did Area. We measured the length and width of one of the shade cloths as a team and estimated the area. We found that challenging because the ruler wasn’t long enough so we had to pin point each end of the ruler. 

After that, we did the second task. It was about designing and building a Tiny House and measuring the perimeter and area of it. I first drew the furniture on the floor plan, then measured the scale of each object, remembering the side of a square is 50 cm in length. I then drew the height of each object on the wall, then the roof and I coloured it in. I had lots of fun and gained lots of knowledge when doing this learning task. 

Isaac Wong 7F

These few weeks we have been learning about measurement. We have learned how to find the perimeter of a shape, the area of a shape and convert measurements by dividing or multiplying. To test our knowledge we have been given to create a Tiny House by getting a grid and making a floor plan. 

After designing the floor plan we had to find the area and the perimeter of some items in the house. While calculating the area and perimeter of the items in the house we needed to use the measurements that each block would equal in real life and use them in our calculations. Doing this project was very enjoyable and fun to test our knowledge of this measurement unit.

Ella Zin 7P

This Term the Year 7s didn’t do a normal Maths test instead, we completed a measurement project! By ourselves we had to construct a practical floorplan for a Tiny House. This meant we had to bring out objects like rulers to measure ourselves to get correct dimensions for the objects required in the floorplan. 

We also ventured out to the Oasis to complete the second part of the project-measuring objects and calculating the perimeter, area and volume of them. My group measured a flowerpot, lunch bench and bricks to name a few. Overall, I think Year 7 students really enjoyed this project as it gave us a break from the regular tests we all are used to.

Satyam Yadav 7R

When I started the tiny house project I didn’t know anything about tiny houses or scaling but this project made me learn how to do those things. I learnt how to put objects in a room to make them fit which really challenged me but it was a really fun project. I liked drawing the floorplan and putting things to scale and colouring the objects. Overall, I really enjoyed the project and I would definitely do it again.

Daniel D’Souza 7P