Learners in Room G5 realised that ‘bigger is better’ this week, as they experienced a lesson in how to enlarge shapes and images. As part of their current ISTEAM project, the students were tasked with modernising a map of Howick and then turning it into a blueprint, four times larger than the original.
It was apparent from the get-go that the brief was causing a few head scratching moments, so the session explicitly focused on the Maths they needed to incorporate in order to be successful.
Following a morning spent using various scale factors to increase the size of 2D shapes, 3D prisms and humourous cartoons, the students charged confidently into the afternoon armed with the skills they needed to successfully enlarge their maps.
