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Horst Punzet Jennifer Duffy Marcella Price: Reflections On Practice

The document discusses optimizing the design of a rain gutter through folding cardboard. It considers design factors like material costs, installation costs, and maintenance costs. Students work in groups to design gutters with different folds and calculate volume. The maximum volume is found with a single 90-degree fold. Further work explores optimizing designs using multiple folds with 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16 sides, finding the volume increases but levels off around 16 sides.

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Horst Punzet Jennifer Duffy Marcella Price: Reflections On Practice

The document discusses optimizing the design of a rain gutter through folding cardboard. It considers design factors like material costs, installation costs, and maintenance costs. Students work in groups to design gutters with different folds and calculate volume. The maximum volume is found with a single 90-degree fold. Further work explores optimizing designs using multiple folds with 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, and 16 sides, finding the volume increases but levels off around 16 sides.

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Horst Punzet

Jennifer Duffy
Rathdown School Marcella Price

Reflections on Practice
Designing the
perfect gutter
Designing the perfect gutter
Design considerations:
• Only fold in half
• Maximize volume

Which way to fold?


• Material costs
• Installation costs
• Maintenance costs
Key skills
Syllabus skills
Lesson  Topic # of lesson
periods
1 Right angled triangles and Pythagoras’ theorem 2
2 Finding the length of a side in a right–angled triangle 1
3 Using trigonometry to solve practical problems 2

4 1 2
Area of triangle = ab sin C
2
5 The Sine Rule 2
6 The Cosine Rule 2
7 Nets of 3 dimensional shapes 2
8 Volume of prisms 2

9  To optimize the design of a rain gutter using one fold 2 × 35 min.


(#9 = research lesson)
To optimize the design of a rain gutter using multiple
10 8
folds
Flow of the lesson
Introduction
 Use project management skills to develop best
options
 Use mathematics to solve real world problems
 Use recent topics such as trigonometry, and
volume of 3D shapes and nets, to investigate the
design of a rain gutter for a building which will
give the maximum flow
Flow of the lesson
Posing the task
 Students will work in groups of 3 or 4
 They will be given a piece of cardboard and
asked to design a gutter by folding the
cardboard in half
 Each group will be given an A3 size placemat,
graph paper and A4 size cardboard sheets
 The task is to optimize the design of the gutter
to achieve the maximum flow of water.
 Each group must prepare a graph to illustrate
their results
 Each group will present their findings
Orientation
Methodology
Volume = Length × Cross Sectional Area

θ 10·5 cm

10·5 cm
θ
Methodology
1
Area of triangle = ab sin C
2
1 10·5 cm
Area of triangle = (10·5)(10·5)sin θ
2
θ
Area of triangle = 55·125sin θ
Methodology
x
1
Area of triangle = base × height θ
2
10·52 – x2y
10·5 cm

(2x)2 = 10·52 + 10·52 – 2(10·5)(10·5)cos θ


Methodology

10·5 cm
10·5sinϕ
ϕ
10·5cosϕ
1800
1650
1500
1350
Volume (cm3)

1200
1050
900
750
600
450
300
150
0 30° 60° 90° 120° 150° 180°
Angle (degrees)
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Conclusions
 Maximum volume was 1653·75 cm3
 Maximum occurs when angle is 90°
 55·125 is a constant and sinθ is a variable
Student feedback
Follow on work
4 sides

A = 0·5(10·5)2
V = 55·125× 30
V = 1653·75 cm3

V= x(21– 2x) 5·25


x cm

(21–
10·52x)
cm
Follow on work
6 sides
      A = 0·5(7)2sin60° × 3
V = 63·65× 30
V = 1910 cm3
   
   

60°

7 cm
Follow on work
8 sides  

   
A = 0·5(6·86)2sin45° × 4
V = 66·55× 30
V = 1997 cm3
 
    45°
 
 

5·25 cm
Follow on work
10 sides
     
A = 0·5(6·8)2sin36° × 5
   
V = 67·86 × 30
 
       
  V = 2036 cm3

36°
4·2 cm
Follow on work
12 sides  
   
A = 0·5(6·76)2sin30° × 6
   
V = 65·54 × 30
 
         
  V = 2056 cm3
30°
3·5 cm
Follow on work
14 sides      
    A = 0·5(6·76)2sin30° × 6
    V = 69·02 × 30
 
           
  V = 2071 cm3

25·7°
3 cm
Follow on work
16 sides  
   
   
A = 0·5(6·73)2sin22·5° × 8
    V = 69·27 × 30
 
             
  V = 2078 cm3

22·5°
2·625 cm
Follow on work
2100

2000
Volume (cm3)

1900

1800

1700

1600

1500

4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Sides of half polygon
n

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