Questions+for+Daniel

Hi daniel, my group is trying to solve your problem and our question is are the planks of wood put down horizontal or vertical ? does it really make any difference?

Because it is a square deck it doesn't matter which way you lay the decking boards. But for this deck it will be layed hoizontal.

Hi Daniel this is how we solved the problem from the mathematicians tool shed we used the mathematicians tool of making a list or table

3m divided by 10cm= 30cms 1m=10cm by 10cms 30=30cm by 30cms our group

So we think you would need 30 planks of wood.

from Mikayla, Carla, Sam and Nicole

well you have solved my problem. Great work u guys

Hi Daniel Its WenWen, Kayla, Daniella and Laura. we used make a model from the mathemicians tool shed. we used unifix blocks to make the deck. we used the 1m ruler to measure out 3m, after that we counted the blocks and worked out you need to buy 30 planks

What a great tool to use to solve the problem and yes you got the right answer - hope you found this maths fun - Daniel