MsMaryMath

Students get a chance to practice solving for surface area and volume while creating a delicious gingerbread house. The basic supplies needed are 6 graham cracker halves (or 3 whole) and icing per house, additional candy to decorate, paper plates to build on, and empty milk cartoons will make construction easier.

Culminating Project that asks students to use a town using parallel lines with traversals; rotations, reflections, and dilations; the area of trapezoids, circles, and rectangles; and the sum of the interior angles of polygons. Includes the requirements, a rubric, and the worksheets to work through the problems.