Maths investigation today

Date: 7th Jan 2019 @ 2:59pm

Our maths investigation was very interesting! We were trying to figure out how many people we could fit inside the ball cage, but the ball cage was locked! We realised that we didn’t need to get inside, if we knew how many rows of people we could fit in, we could figure it out. However, then someone pointed out that there was in fact loaaaaads of room higher up if we could stack people. So then we learnt about volume and how we could figure out the best way to stack people so they’d fit! It caused lots of arguments about best strategies, including jenga stacks, piggy backs and cinnamon roll towers! We realised that there were issues with our assumptions because some groups had smaller members, and other had much taller ones... this led us to refine our statement: how many Juliettes can you fit in compared to how many Eddies? We still can’t decide on the best way to stack them though!