Measuring cars

This is an activity proposal in which the students have to use measures of cars that may be attractive for them.

First, for this activity the teacher create a context. S/he explain the students that a luxury car dealer needs them to compare the measurements of some of their cars and guess the average length of them. In this way the students will be motivated to carry out the activity so they will want to do it.

To carry out the activity, the teacher will assign to each group of 5 students a brand of cars with different models. They will have to compare the measurements of each pair of cars assigned to them and calculate the average length (height, width and length) of all of them.
Then, the students will change the measures of the cars into other unit as cm, dm, etc. The teacher will decide which group have one unit or another.

Finally, the teacher asked the students to measure, with the help of their mother or father, the measurements of their own car to make the comparison the next day in class, order all the cars in brands and calculate the average of them as in the activity.

The objective is to practice the comparison of measurements and the average of them.

The course will be 6th grade of Primary Education.

These would be some examples of cars for the activity:

- Lamborghini:

- Maserati:

- Porsche:

- Ferrari:

- Tesla: