Description
This is a project for a high school mathematics class where students are challenged to make a box from a piece of A4 paper with maximum volume. They'll be prompted to design an equation to represent the volume of the box, and create a graph to find size of corner cuts that will produce the biggest box. It's a really worthwhile activity for students to see a real-world application of what polynomial functions can be used for.
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Description
This is a project for a high school mathematics class where students are challenged to make a box from a piece of A4 paper with maximum volume. They'll be prompted to design an equation to represent the volume of the box, and create a graph to find size of corner cuts that will produce the biggest box. It's a really worthwhile activity for students to see a real-world application of what polynomial functions can be used for.

