These are some of our completed math city projects. Students were tasked to think like urban planners and use the concepts of measurement and geometry to design a city section. Every city section had to have an area of 28 by 28 squares, a road system showing specific types of lines (parallel, intersecting, perpendicular), and buildings that cover a specified area (ie. a rectangle with an area of 600 mm2 and a length of 30mm). Students also learned about the features of rectangular prisms and created the unique nets for all their buildings. As an extension, some students also added triangular prism rooftops to the buildings, incorporated a fraction / percentage of green space into their city sections, and designed the map of a subway system that would run underneath their city sections.
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