Middle school students recently spent time designing buildings and bridges as part of a mathematics project aimed at exploring proportional reasoning and comparisons of scale and ratio. Students worked as architects do by calculating scale factors and matching the form of their design to its intended function. Creativity was encouraged as students learned and applied the mathematics of Pythagoras, the Golden Ratio, and Pi to their concept drawings and scale diagrams. These blue prints were then transformed into scale models which are on display at Red Cedar School.
Middle school students with completed designs and models.
Eliot's Sod/Eco House takes form.
Eliot focused on the details of his environmentally friendly, lean-to inspired home for four.
Margot's stone foot bridge under construction.
Margot's detailed drawing of the pylons and arches of her stone bridge.
John with his timber framed dairy barn.
View of the inside of John's barn. The cows must be out to pasture?
Parker's scale drawings.
Parker along with his fortified castle, Burg Dracheshlof.
Detail of Parker's Burg Dracheshlof.
Parker's concept drawing.
Miranda works on the details of her model hotel, the Selinger Inn. Clearly a five star!
Miranda's scale drawing along with calculations.
Adrian along with his model of El Hotel Magnifico.
Patrick's model. The A.I. Institute for Robotics whose mission is to make great advances in the field of Robotics and related technology.
Kellen with his model home. Tinderbox.
C takes a break from working on the his waterfront Lake House Restaurant complete with docks.
Middle school students with completed designs and models.
Eliot's Sod/Eco House takes form.
Eliot focused on the details of his environmentally friendly, lean-to inspired home for four.
Margot's stone foot bridge under construction.
Margot's detailed drawing of the pylons and arches of her stone bridge.
John with his timber framed dairy barn.
View of the inside of John's barn. The cows must be out to pasture?
Parker's scale drawings.
Parker along with his fortified castle, Burg Dracheshlof.
Detail of Parker's Burg Dracheshlof.
Parker's concept drawing.
Miranda works on the details of her model hotel, the Selinger Inn. Clearly a five star!
Miranda's scale drawing along with calculations.
Adrian along with his model of El Hotel Magnifico.
Patrick's model. The A.I. Institute for Robotics whose mission is to make great advances in the field of Robotics and related technology.
Kellen with his model home. Tinderbox.
C takes a break from working on the his waterfront Lake House Restaurant complete with docks.
