Magnificent Moon Maths!

We are using some amazing maths skills to calculate a few different problems.

• Firstly, how much fuel will it take to get to the moon? Easy-google it. 
• Then, can that amount of fuel fit inside our school hall?

We started by first measuring the volume of our classroom-an epic 225 cubic meteres!

                                                                       Amelia's calculations
                                                          

So we need to measure the volume of the hall space.
Then compare the amount of fuel needed to get to the moon, to the volume of the hall.

We also need to convert the unit measurements into litres-how do we do that?

Here are some super exciting photos of maths books! But seriously-check out the calculations! Amazing!

We found out that it takes 3,787,350L of fuel to get to the moon-approx.

We measured our school hall and found the Length, Width and Height.

21.5x13.5x3.8m= 1102.95 cubic metres

So we needed to convert this to Litres.

We know there are 1000L in 1 cubic metre- so we had to times the volume by 1000 to get the Litres that fit in our hall.

1102.95x1000=

So our school hall can fit 1,102,950L of fuel

Questions: Would our school hall fit the amount of fuel needed to get to the moon?

Answer:   No because, the total amount of fuel needed for getting to the moon is 3,787,350 L 

If 1,102,950 L is what we fit in our hall 3,787,350L of fuel would not fit in our school hall 

We would need 3.43 halls

by Maccrae

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