Student Achievement
Design From The Right Angle
17 March
Last Thursday our Year 9 students turned our courtyard into their classroom taking advantage of the great Ballarat weather.
In Year 9 Mathematics students have been studying the topic of Pythagoras and Trigonometry in a unit called “Design From The Right Angle”.
This study unit requires the calculation of various sides and angles of a right-angled triangle. For the hands on activity today, students have built miniature cubby houses. Teams were allocated a roof pitch angle and cubby house height which they had to use in their calculations.
In groups, the students have constructed their model cubby house to suit the particular specifications for their group.
Congratulations to our Year 9 Mathematics students for their very impressive efforts in applying the theories they have learned in class to the application of building these mini houses.