Turn your pupils into emerging architects with a resource that asks learners to analyze a scale drawing of a building. They use the scale drawing to interpret the size of the actual building before recreating the drawing using a different scale. 

Concepts

scale, scale drawings, similarity, scale factors

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Show pictures of local architecture before showing the scale drawing
• Use as an assessment of scale and similarity

Classroom Considerations

• Problems require rulers

Pros

• Questions require pupils to apply the concept of similarity and scale
• Includes a worked-out solution key
• Downloads as an editable document

Cons

• None

Common Core

HSG-SRT.B.5