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Water Aqueduct Shaping (cross-sectional area)

This activity involves area of a rectangle and trapezium, volume of a cuboid, application of trigonometry, and plotting a graph from a table of values. Here’s an extract:

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    Water Aqueduct Shaping (PowerPoint, notes for teachers, spreadsheet, GeoGebra)

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