Original PromptStudent Task Sheet: The Tower Challenge
Engineers:
L Sketch Your Design Below
Planning Space:
Students use the grid
area to visualize groups
before building.
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2. Multiplication Grouping
groups of _ =__ total
(Example: 4 pillars x 6 blocks = 24)
3. Scaling Up: If you built this tower 3 times taller,
how many blocks would you need? Show your
math:
Formulas:
Encourage students to
write the multiplication
sentence before they
start construction. YEAR 5
This learning resource focuses on tower engineering and multiplication skills. Students are tasked with visualizing their tower design using a grid, applying multiplication to calculate block totals based on the layers they design. They start by understanding the concept of grouping, using an example to calculate the total number of blocks for a tower with a specified number of floors and blocks per floor. Following this, they will scale up their design, increasing the size of their tower and calculating the new total of blocks required. Additionally, there's a challenge task that encourages creativity by asking students to design a tower using exactly 40 blocks, emphasizing equal-sized layers and the construction of a multiplication sentence to represent their design.