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Using space efficiently: packing a truck
This is a problem solving lesson, designed to help you assess how well students are able to:
- Reason precisely and defend their conclusions
- Use mathematics to model a scenario concerning volume
The problem is set in the context of packing a truck in the most efficient way possible. The dimensions of the truck are given, along with those of the parcels (all of which are identical). There is a suggestion that the situation could be modelled using multilink cubes.
Once they have attempted the task themselves, students are given samples of work to peer assess. They are then encouraged to refine their own solutions.
This is a problem solving lesson from the Mathematics Assessment Resource Service, a collaboration between UC Berkeley and the Shell Centre team at the University of Nottingham. Further information on the collection is given here.
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