Our Math Inquiry

   Our Perimeter, Area and Volume Learning Journey

Provocation:  We watched a video about the discovery of King Tut's tomb and  made Spaceships out of cardboard boxes.

First we cut out pictures and shapes to find the perimeter and area of.

Then we completed an area investigation using paper clips to construct as many rectangular shapes as possible. We recorded this data and discussed our findings looking closely at the relationship between  perimeter and area.

Following this, we learnt about the pyramids and tombs of Egypt. We had to design our own Egyptian tomb.  After we worked out the perimeter and area of all the different chambers. Some of us used arrays and some of us addition and multiplication.

Next we wrote a 4 sentence descriptive piece of writing about entering our tomb. Some of us also explored the volume of pyramids.

Finally we designed and made our own space rockets. As part of this we had to find the perimeter, area and volume of our rockets.

We found out:

-  A shape can have the same area as another but have a different perimeter.

 - If a shape has the same area as another, the perimeter may not be the same.

-  If you have the perimeter of a shape, then you can find the area of the shape and if you have area and perimeter you can find the volume of a specific container or 3D shape (length, width and height).