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How Tall?
At 146.5 m (481 ft) high, the
Great Pyramid stood as the
tallest structure in the world
for more than 4,000 years.
Today it stands at 137 m
(449.5 ft) high, having lost
9.5 m (31 ft) from the top.
Task 1
Scale: 1 cm = 30 m
Task 2
Once you have assembled your scaled-down model of the Great Pyramid, draw the
following table in your Maths book. Then work out the missing numbers and fill in
the missing numbers:
Scale Object
Height to represent
Actual (1 cm = scaled-down
Object Height 30 m) height
Great Pyramid 146.5 m 4.9 cm paper pyramid
Statue of Liberty 92 m ? cm small paper clip
Sears Building 443 m ? cm ball-point pen
Average person 1.7 m .05 cm (.5 mm) grain of salt
Eiffel Tower 300 m ? ?
Leaning
Tower of Pisa 55 m ? ?
Big Ben
How Heavy?
More than 2,300,000 limestone and granite
blocks were pushed, pulled, and dragged into
place on the Great Pyramid. The average
weight of a block is about 2.3 metric tons (2.5
tons). How much do all the blocks weigh
together?
a. What is the area of one triangle that makes the Great Pyramid? First work it
out in square centimetres. Now times your answer by four to get the total
area of all four triangles in square centimetres.
b. What are the dimensions of the base, height and side edges of the pyramid in
metres? (You need to times the centimetres by 30 to get it into metres.) Now
use your answers to work out the total area of the four triangles in square
metres.
c. What is the total area of the square that makes the base, in square metres?
Show all your working out.
d. How many Melbourne Cricket grounds (MCG’s) would fit into this base area?
How Deep?
The descending passageway that leads to
the Unfinished Chamber is long, narrow,
steep and, without any windows, very dark!
When you arrive at the burial chamber,
you'll be 20 m (66 ft) beneath the
foundation with over 6 million tons of stone
piled above you!
How Steep?
Each side of the Great Pyramid rises at an
angle of 51.5 degrees to the top. Not only that,
each of the sides are aligned almost exactly
with true north, south, east, and west.
For a pyramid to look like a pyramid, each of
the four triangular-shaped sides must slope up
and towards each other at the same angle so
that they meet at a point at the top. The
builders constructed the pyramid layer by
layer, starting at the bottom. They had to check
their work often, for even a tiny error at the bottom
could grow into a very large error by the time the
workers reached the top!
Perimeter?
The base of the Great Pyramid is a square with each side measuring 230 m (756 ft)
and covering an area of 5.3 hectares (13 acres).
If you were to walk around the base, about how far would you walk?
The most enigmatic of sculptures, the Sphinx was carved from a single block of
limestone left over in the quarry used to build the Pyramids. Scholars believe it was
sculpted about 4,600 years ago by the pharaoh Khafre, whose Pyramid rises directly
behind it and whose face may be that represented on the Sphinx.
The
Sphinx from the rear, gazing
down on Cairo.
Half human, half lion, the Sphinx is 240 feet long and 66 feet high. What are these
dimensions in metres?
I have scaled down the Great Pyramid for you. Now it's up to you to see if you can
create scale models (use a scale of your own choice, but write the scale onto each of
your models) of the other two pyramids on the Giza Plateau, Khafre and Menkaure.
Here are their actual dimensions:
Khafre
Menkaure
Reigned(dates
Dynasty Pharaoh in B.C.)
Problem 1a
Queen Hatshepsut has ordered her Nubian general, Nehsi, to sail to the
Each ship can carry planks of wood so how many ships will
Nehsi have to take with him to transport all the wood back to Egypt?
Problem 1b.
Problem 2.
Problem 3.
Problem 4.
Before Thuthmose and his army reach Aaruna, at the foot of the
food and litres of water per day, and each camel needs
How many camels are needed to carry the water, food and
equipment?
Problem 5a.
If his pyramid has a square base what is the maximum length of one side
of the pyramid? (Please draw a little picture to show your thinking).
Problem 5b
What will the surface area of the pyramid be if the angle of elevation is
The Egyptian wants to paint the pyramid black (his cat was black)
and a barrel of tar covers square metres how many barrels of tar
will he need to buy ?
(unfortunately the market only sells full barrels)
Task 13: Refer the the numbers given in Task 12 to answer these questions.
Do them in your Maths book. Show all your working out. Start by writing each
questions in „normal‟ maths first.
How many deben of copper does the man make per month?
The man has to spend deben of copper per donkey per day
for feed. When the donkeys are working they need twice as much
the donkeys?
in part [a])
Taking into account the amount the man must spend on the
loan (part ‘a’) and the feed (part ‘b’), and the amount that
the man makes from hiring out the donkeys (part ‘a’), how
enough money?
Task 14: Do in your Maths book by first writing the numbers into
‘normal’ numbers first, then finding the missing number.
Task 15
Create a PowerPoint containing at least 15 slides, about Egyptian Mathematics. The first
slide must contain your Name, the title Egyptian Mathematics, and your year level. The last
slide must have the Bibliography with all the websites you used, or all the books you used.
The other 13 slides must contain images and information relating to Egyptian Mathematics,
e.g. Egyptian number system, Maths relating to the pyramids, Maths relating to their money,
the Nile river, the way they did business, how they worked out time, how they worked out
angles, weight etc. When you have finished your Power Point, you must save it as Your
Names Egyptian Maths PowerPoint, in your home drive or on a USB or your netbook, then
drag it to my drop box and put it into 7T6 Mathematics folder. Thank you!