Real Life Maths

We had to create a large sign for our fashion show.  Mrs Torney showed us a mini version of the letters which had a length of 6cm and a breadth of 4cm.  She said that we were to use the ratio 1:7 to create a bigger sign so that it stood out.  We knew that for every 1cm of Mrs Torney's letter we had to make ours 7cm so our letter had to have a length of 42cm (6cm x 7) and a breadth of 28cm (4cm x 7).  Here we are making our letters and the finished sign.

The letters had to have silver circles stuck onto them so that they looked like marquee letters.  This meant that we had to remind ourselves of how to use a compass.  We had to create a circle using the ration 1:4.  Mrs Torney's circle had a diameter of 2 cm, so our circle had to have a diameter of 8cm.  We had to half the diameter to get the radius which we used when drawing the circles with a compass.