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Year 8: Mathematics Key Homework Term 5

Name: _______________ Form: _______ Teacher: ______

Hand this on or before:________________

This homework is designed to give students the opportunity to research and investigate
further an area of Mathematics they have previously been introduced to.

Please remember to start this as soon as it is set so that you have enough time to
ask for help if you need it.

Objective: To design and produce a 3D box suitable as packaging for chocolates along
with its net and calculations of surface area and volume.

You have been asked by Billy Bonkas to design a new chocolate box for a brand new range of
chocolates. You can create the name for the chocolates.

Billy Bonkas is expecting you to:

• Make a Net of the box
• Label the net with all the dimensions of the box.
• Work out the surface area of the proposed box from the dimensions of the net.
• Work out the volume of the box
• Make a prototype (first example) of the new chocolate box based on the net.

Hints to help you with this homework:

1) Keep your ideas simple to start with.
• Think what shapes you can find the area or volume of.
• Try to combine these shapes to produce a more interesting shaped box.
• The following links will help getting you started with familiar shapes:
http://www.mymaths.co.uk/gold/shape/nets.html
http://www.mymaths.co.uk/gold/shape/3dShape.html
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2) To extend the task, you need to make a more challenging shape
• Investigate the difference between prisms and pyramids
• The following links will give you ideas for even more challenging shapes:
http://www.korthalsaltes.com
• Remember you must be able to calculate volume as well as surface area!

How your parents can help you with this homework:

• Talk through with them what measurements your box will have and how they will be
used to find the area and volume
• Get them to check your calculations
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• Use your parents as an extra pair of hands when making the final box!

Your final piece of work will be marked by your peers according to the following criteria:

1) APPEARANCE:
a) How well coloured and made your box is (4 marks)
b) How interesting the 3D shape is (10 marks)

2) ACCURACY: (6 marks)
a) How accurate the net of the shape is
i) Angles
ii) Stated dimensions (Lengths)

3) CALCULATIONS (4 marks)
a) How clear/ easy-to-follow are your calculations of surface area
b) How clear/ easy-to-follow are your calculations of Volume

Your final piece of work will also be levelled by your teacher according to the type of box
used and calculations produced. Below is a guide to the level of understanding needed for
certain shapes or processes.

Level 4 c) Able to draw lines to a given length and accurately measure angles
b) Able to draw rectangles accurately (i.e. produce a net of a cube)
b) Able to draw triangles
a) Able to calculate the area of a rectangle
Level 5 c) Able to calculate the area of a triangle
b) Able to calculate the area of compound shapes made from rectangles
and/or triangles
a) Able to show which edges of a net will match in the 3D shape
Level 6 c) Able to calculate the volume of a cuboid;
Able to calculate the area of a trapezium or parallelogram
b) Able to find the circumference of a circle
Able to construct the net of a tetrahedron
a) Able to calculate the area of a circle
Level 7 Able to find the volume of a prism
Level 8 Able to find the volume of a pyramid
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Evaluation

Criteria Marks Peer 1 Peer 2 Peer 3 Mean Mark

Available Achieved
APPEARANCE
• How well-coloured and made is the 4
box?
• How interesting is the shape? 10
ACCURACY
• How accurately drawn are the angles 6
and lengths of the net?
CALCULATIONS
• How clear / easy-to-follow are the 4
calculations for surface area?
• How clear / easy-to-follow are the
calculations for the volume?

TOTAL 24

Targets to improve your next piece of work:

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Student’s and Parent’s Comment:

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Teacher Comment: LEVEL:_________

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