5th Grade Dream Home
Overview:
Plan and design your own “dream house” within certain cost constraints. Here are the budget, cost, and building rules you will have to work with.
Process:
Plan and design your own “dream house” within certain cost constraints. Here are the budget, cost, and building rules you will have to work with.
- Construction of “regular” rooms (traditional rooms with no special requirements) costs $75 per square foot.
- Construction of “special” rooms (requiring special wiring, plumbing, or unusual materials) costs $150 per square foot.
- All houses must include a kitchen, 2 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms, living room, and a garage.
- Rooms and hallways must have reasonable areas.
- The overall design must be convenient and practical (e.g., provide easy access to rooms, allow for privacy, include doors and hallways in practical locations, etc.).
Process:
- Create a rough copy on notebook paper
- Draw your floor plan on grid paper
- Calculate the AREA and PERIMETER of each individual room and the house
- Fill out and complete the Dream House Spreadsheet
- Create a virtual model using Floor Planner, log in using your Google email and computer password
Dream House Spreadsheet
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1. Click on the link
2. Make a copy 3. Save as "Name's End of the Year Math Project" |
Floor Planner
Student Floor Plans
Rubric
Common Core Standards
- 5.OA.2 Write simple expressions that record calculations with numbers, and interpret numerical expressions without evaluating them.
- CC.5.NBT.5 Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
- CC.5.NBT.6 Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
- 5.MD.4 Measure volumes by counting unit cubes, using cubic cm, cubic in, cubic ft, and improvised units.
- 5.MD.5 Relate volume to the operations of multiplication and addition and solve real world and mathematical problems involving volume.a. Find the volume of a right rectangular prism with whole-number side lengths by packing it with unit cubes, and show that the volume is the same as would be found by multiplying the edge lengths, equivalently by multiplying the height by the area of the base. Represent threefold whole-number products as volumes, e.g., to represent the associative property of multiplication.b. Apply the formulas V = l × w × h and V = b × h for rectangular prisms to find volumes of right rectangular prisms with whole number edge lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems.c. Recognize volume as additive. Find volumes of solid figures composed of two non-overlapping right rectangular prisms by adding the volumes of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems.