1. Warm-up:
No homework tonight!
- Read the scale drawings quiz prompt (below)
- Decide on a scale with your team. You must all use the same scale
2. Scale Drawings Quiz
Professor Nut is designing a tree house. The branch that he is building on has a width of 28 inches and a length of 70 inches. For safety reasons, the walls of his tree house should end 2 inches prior to the edge of the branch. He wants the entrance of the tree house set 10 inches from the trunk. He wants his Winter Nut Storage room to have twice the area of his living room.
Professor Nut's nutty, not-to-scale drawing:
3. Finish Lessons 4.1.1 and 4.1.2
- 4.1.2 Problem #15 on page 193
- 4.1.1 Problem #5 on page 189
- Extension: Also make enlargements/reductions using the scale factors of 2, 4, and 1/2. How do the perimeters and areas compare to the original drawing? Do you see a pattern?
- Check your answers in the Top Secret Answer Key on the computer cart
No homework tonight!
