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Gateshead Millennium Bridge Project Lesson C

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Gateshead Millennium Bridge                                     Maths lesson Plan C

Year / Class :  Y5/6

Numeracy:
problem solving involving real life measures.

Mental / Oral Teaching Objectives:

Use, read and write metric units

Convert larger to smaller units (scale adjustment)

Resources

Metre stick? Measuring stick/ counting stick       pupil whiteboards / pens

Mental / Oral Activities

Use a counting stick to count in tens from zero to 100cms on the top, and in decimal equivalents of one metre below.

Use sticky labels to identify the key positions

Ask the children what converting from a unit of measurement to another means.

How can you convert from metres to centimetres?

What would 2 metres be in centimetres?

How many centimetres is equal to 5 metres?

Using the counting stick to help, ask the children to convert 0.2 metres to centimetres. Now do the reverse.

Convert 30cms to metres and so on…

Talk about mixed units, i.e.  1.23 metres

Can the children identify two other ways of stating the same fact   123cms, or 1m 23cms

Key Vocabulary

Metres

Centimetres

Convert

Equivalent

Dimensions

Key Questions

How many centimetres are equivalent to 0.9m?

How many metres are equal to 75cms?

Can you write 2m 18cms in two other ways?

Main teaching Objectives

To convert measurements to scale and construct scale drawings.

Problem solving task incorporating enlargement.

Resources

Conversion chart, drawing materials, string or wool, squared paper.

Main Activities

Teacher role.

(Using visual aid of Gateshead Millennium Bridge)

Encourage estimation of bridge dimensions

Introduce actual statistics on Millennium Bridge.

Inform class of task to construct scale drawing of bridge.

Take children through scale concept.

Complete Conversion chart with scale set at 1cm to 10m

(Children have 10 minutes to complete task)

Gateshead Millennium Bridge Task

Planning permission falls through!

The Gateshead Millennium Bridge has to be sited further up the River Tyne.

There are two possible sites.

A is ½ the original dimension of the bridge.

B is twice the original dimension.

Your task is to construct these two new designs, using the same scale of 1cm to 10m and complete the conversion chart to check that your designs are accurate.

Key Questions

Why can’t we draw the bridge using the real measurements?

What does scale allow us to do?

What would these measurements be if the scale was 1m to… (give selection of examples)

What do you expect the new designs to look like?

Key Vocabulary

Metric measurement

Scale conversion

Length

Enlargement

Reduction

Plenary

Complete prepared scale conversion chart which has missing metre and centimetre values.