5th grade

[michelemcgee]

I'm a parent helping in class today. I'm the one who needs help. This is the problem:
To keep your group safe from tropical storms, wild animals and pesky bugs, you must build some sort of shelter for sleeping. since there are limited building materials on the island, you must plan your shelter carefully. The following list of items are the only materials you can use for your shelter:
35 logs 1 ft by 6 ft
1 rope 50 ft long
2 bundles branches 3 feet long

Questions
1. Calculate how much square feet will be needed in your shelter to accommodate all of you group members

2. Draw a diagram show the cubic dimension of your shelter

3. Is it better to have a long shorter shelter or a tall thinner shelter?

 

[Deleted member 4993]

I'm a parent helping in class today. I'm the one who needs help. This is the problem:
To keep your group safe from tropical storms, wild animals and pesky bugs, you must build some sort of shelter for sleeping. since there are limited building materials on the island, you must plan your shelter carefully. The following list of items are the only materials you can use for your shelter:
35 logs 1 ft by 6 ft
1 rope 50 ft long
2 bundles branches 3 feet long <<< This does not make sense to me!!!

Questions
1. Calculate how much square feet will be needed in your shelter to accommodate all of you group members

How many people are there in the group?

2. Draw a diagram show the cubic dimension of your shelter

3. Is it better to have a long shorter shelter or a tall thinner shelter?

 

[michelemcgee]

It is a problem for small groups of 4 kids to work on together. I'm guessing that they need to take the 35 logs and figure the shape of a cube structure. Then do the calculations. I don't think the rope and branches are needed for the calculations. I was just a little rusty on calculating dimensions.

Thanks,

 

[Denis]

The following list of items are the only materials you can use for your shelter:
35 logs 1 ft by 6 ft
1 rope 50 ft long
2 bundles branches 3 feet long

Hmmm....the kids could "stand up" the logs forming a box-like room, leaving one side missing a log
(that would become the entrance); make width 3 feet so branches can be spread as a roof; and they'd
use the 50 ft rope to tie their teacher Subhotosh to a tree so he don't interfere as he apparently
knows nuttin' about wildlife shelters

 

[michelemcgee]

Perfect. I didn't think about the width needing to be 3 ft same as the branches. I'll post the kids results, I'm going in an hour to "help" with this problem. The 50 ft of rope must be the limiting factor for the perimeter so as to tie the logs together, I'm guessing there will be multiple answers.

 

[Denis]

Le Top View:
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
O             O
O                <- Le Entrance
O             O
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Notice the shrewd arrangement for exactly 35 logs!
And the 1 foot wide entrance means Subhotosh can't go in :idea:

Denis Log Cabins Ltd.
1-800-LOG-CABS
You connect, we erect.

 

[Deleted member 4993]

use the 50 ft rope to tie their teacher Subhotosh to a tree so he don't interfere as he apparently
knows nuttin' about wildlife shelters

But - I am still in the corner........

 

[Denis]

We'll do anything to tie you to a tree...even allow you to leave corner early :twisted: