Building Dimensions

First you will be broken up into partners and each group will pick a country with a city out of a hat.  Once this is done you will work on a computer with your partner using this link to gather information about the tallest building in the city you have selected. http://www.emporis.com/buildings (DO NOT FORGET TO WRITE DOWN THE NAME OF YOUR BUILDING AND ALL THE DIMENSIONS LISTED FOR THIS BUILDING, INCLUDING WHEN CONSTRUCTION STARTED)

Next you and your partner will figure out:

1..Area of building

 2. Surface area of building

3.Volume ofbuilding

 Make sure you both know how to do the calculations and what each step is, since you will be presenting this and explaining your process to the class.  For now each person should do the equations on their own piece of paper, and once you are done compare them with your partners.  Use your book and here are two website that will help you, open and go over them while doing your calculations.

http://www.learner.org/interactives/geometry/

http://www.helpingwithmath.com/by_subject/geometry/geo_area.htm

http://www.math.com/tables/geometry/surfareas.htm

Finally,you will create a coordinate plane poster board with your partner.  BE CAREFUL AND READ AHEAD BEFORE STARTING! 

1. With a ruler make a solid line along the left edge of your poster board touching all the way from the top to the bottom. Label this the Y-AXIS at the bottom next to your line. 

2. Next take a ruler and measure from the bottom of the poster board 2 inches up and draw a horizontal line at the 2 inch mark. Label this your X-AXIS on the bottom right of your poster board. 

3. Now,starting at your X- AXIS make a horizontal line at every inch mark all the way to the top and bottom of the poster board. Repeat this starting at your Y-AXIS making a vertical line at every inch mark, making your way to the right side. Each inch interval and axis represents 50 ft, meaning 1 inch = 50 ft.

4. Take a color pencil of your choice and draw your building on the poster board.  Start the left side of your building at the interval (2, 0).  Take the tallest height and estimate where it would fall on the coordinate plane.  (Remember each interval represents 50 ft.Round to the nearest 50 ft.) Label the (x,y)  interval where this height stops and draw the height on your poster board. The interval should read (2, ?).

5. Take the width and make your way down the X-AXIS to the correct interval, write this down.  If there are any floors below ground draw them underneath the X-AXIS to the correct measurement. 

6. Repeat Step 4 for the right edge of the building, starting at whatever interval you got for the width.  The final product should be a rectangle on your coordinate plane, with all 4 points labeled with an interval.

After you are done you should have 4 intervals written next to your points/corners on the poster board.  On the back of the poster board in 3 different colors, 1 for each equation, write out in big enough numbers for the class to see,  the mathematical equation you did to find the area, surface area, and volume of your building.