A piece of cake
In this lesson, students build on their skills in finding volumes and surface areas of prisms and cylinders to design a multi-level celebration cake for a party. They use mathematical modelling to vary the size and shape of the component cakes and to calculate how much frosting is needed.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 10
- Purpose
- Teaching resource
- Strand
- Measurement
- Topic
- Area, volume and surface area Mathematical modelling
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P7) Proportional thinking (P7)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2024 Commonwealth of Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.
- Keywords
- volume
- Other terms
- Maths Hub lesson plan
Related resources
-
Geometry of water sources and landforms
Develop an understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ deep connection to water, and explore how mathematics supports survival, culture, and caring for Country.
Resource details -
Mathematical modelling: What makes us happy? for Year 10.
Students analyse wealth and happiness using real data, creating scatterplots, lines of best fit and r², and evaluating limits of correlation.
Resource details -
Volume of a cylinder inquiry
This prompt will challenge students to explore their understanding of integers and the volume of cylinders.
Resource details -
Volume and surface area: Year 10 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 10 is for the topic of Volume and surface area.
Resource details -
Mathematical modelling (Algebra): Year 10 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 10 is for the topic of Mathematical modelling.
Resource details -
Mathematical modelling (Measurement): Year 10 – planning tool
This planning resource for Year 10 is for the topic of Mathematical modelling.
Resource details -
Capital Airways: Part 2
This is the second lesson in the Capital Airways series and follows the prior lesson Capital Airways: Part 1. Students investigate a network through an airline route map.
Resource details -
Surface area and volume
Students work through the problem to design an elephant enclosure. (Note: some of the measurements are given in imperial units and will need to be adjusted.)
Resource details