Abstract
The aim of this task is to facilitate the parking entrance from the street to the basement of different types of cars and other moving objects such as baby carriages, wheelchairs, etc. The natural intention is to make the passage from the street to the basement as short as possible This task is inspired by (and is a continuation of) the Parking Problem proposed by the Spain Mascil team. The problem implements mathematical ideas in the context of road construction, car design, architecture, traffic control (speed bumps). The students are expected to explore a real-life situation by means of paper models and dynamic geometry software. Based on experiments they enhance their intuition for the situation under consideration, formulate and verify conjectures and, finally, find practically acceptable solutions.



Documents

• Teacher: WORD and PDF
• Student: WORD and PDF
• Links to the dynamic files (geogebra) are included in the Teachers guide as well as in the Student pages.

Discipline
- Mathematics
- Biology
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Engineering


Target group
- Primary Education
- Lower Secondary Education
- Upper Secondary Education

Age range
12-24

Duration
90 min.