Marketing careers: Working with scale drawings
This activity for grade six combines math, art, and writing, as students create a scale drawing of a toy car and reflect on how math can be used in marketing careers.
An activity for grade 6 Mathematics
Provided by CareerStart
This activity combines math, art, and writing, as students create a scale drawing of a toy car and reflect on how math can be used in marketing careers. You may choose to do this after the end-of-grade tests as an enrichment activity when you can devote more time, energy, and effort.
Learning outcomes
- Students will calculate the dimensions of a toy car to create a scale drawing.
- Students will understand how mathematical concepts are used in marketing careers.
Teacher planning
Materials needed
- Student handouts:
- “Scale Drawing Problem-Solving Activity”
- Reflection questions
- Toy cars (Ask students to bring toy cars from home.)
- Centimeter graph paper
Time required for lesson
Approximately 2 class periods and homework time both nights
Procedure
- Conduct a class discussion about careers in which a person might need to use scale drawings.
- Hand out the problem-solving activity, reflection questions, and graph paper, and explain the problem faced by the marketing team in the activity.
- Have students complete the problem-solving activity and reflection questions.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Mathematics (2004)
Grade 6
- Goal 5: Algebra - The learner will demonstrate an understanding of simple algebraic expressions.
- Objective 5.04: Use graphs, tables, and symbols to model and solve problems involving rates of change and ratios.
