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.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 10
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Web page
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Differentiated teaching, Mathematics investigation
Keywords	prisms, cylinders, surface area, volume, Maths Hub lesson plan
Curriculum alignment
Curriculum connections	Critical and creative thinking
Strand and focus	Measurement
Topics	Area, volume and surface area, Mathematical modelling
AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions	AC9M10M01 Solve problems involving the surface area and volume of composite objects using appropriate units AC9M10M05 Use mathematical modelling to solve practical problems involving proportion and scaling of objects; formulate problems and interpret solutions in terms of the situation; evaluate and modify models as necessary, and report assumptions, methods and findings
Numeracy progression	Understanding geometric properties (P7) Proportional thinking (P7)
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