{"id":140518,"date":"2017-06-01T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=140518"},"modified":"2024-02-19T16:30:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T12:30:53","slug":"grade-7-maths-building-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2017\/06\/01\/grade-7-maths-building-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 7 Maths &#8211; building bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Mr. Davis is away, grade 7 students have been managing funds, making purchases and constructing toothpick bridges in a competitive effort to hold the most weight. Some students have been surprised by the importance of paying attention to details in instructions, designing their product carefully, and planning expenditures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One group damaged their original supplies and had to spend valuable resources to &#8216;purchase&#8217; more, others have been &#8216;audited&#8217; and errors in calculations have been &#8216;fined&#8217;. A common frustration is the realization that they don&#8217;t have enough money to complete their ideas because their written plans were not detailed enough to estimate expenses and financial shortcomings were not evident until the building process began.<\/p>\n<p>Such a simple project, but students are quickly discovering the reality of working with severely limited resources.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4660-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4660-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"747\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140517 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4660-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4660-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4660-1-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4660-1-600x448.jpg 600w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4660-1-510x382.jpg 510w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/747;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4659.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4659.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"746\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140516 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4659.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4659-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4659-768x573.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/06\/img_4659-600x448.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/746;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Mr. Davis is away, grade 7 students have been managing funds, making purchases and constructing toothpick bridges in a competitive effort to hold the most weight. Some students have been surprised by the importance of paying attention to details in instructions, designing their product carefully, and planning expenditures.&nbsp; One group damaged their original supplies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":140515,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,192,15,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grade-7","category-myp","category-secondary-maths","category-grades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}