Question 11

11. List places or situations in which surface area is important. Compare your list with those of your class mates.


1.) When designing clothes.

You need to know the measurements for the people you are making the clothes for.


2.) When wallpapering your wall/ or painting a wall.
You need to know the dimentions of the wall you are covering to buy the right side.


3.) When buliding a house.
You need to know the size of what you are building, so you can buy the correct amount of materials.


4.) When buying furniture.
You need to know the measurements of you room, to buy the correct size furniture.


5.) When designing shoes.

You need to know the size shoe you are making.

6.) When buliding a wall.
You need to know what the measurments are, also the surface area.



7.) When you are a Carpenter
You need to know surface area, of areas where you are expanding or doing work on.

8.) When you are a farmer.
You need to know the area of your field so you can buy seeds.

9.)When you are putting shingles on your roof.
You need to know the surface area of your roof.

10.) When you are landscaping your backyard.
You need to know the surface area of your yard, for the right amount of plants or grass.

11.) When you are wrapping gifts.
You need to measure how much wrapping paper it takes to cover the surface area of the present.

12.) When you are baking layered cakes.
You need to know the surface area of the first layer so you can make the next layer smaller, etc.

13.) When you are buliding a treehouse.
You need to know the measurements of the tree, plus the surface area of the house to make sure it will fit.

14.) When you are laying a floor.
You would need to know the surface area of the floor.

15.) When you are buliding a deck.
You would need to know the suface area of the spot where you are placing it.