### Cylinder Cutting

An activity for high-attaining learners which involves making a new cylinder from a cardboard tube.

# Next Size Up

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Class 5AM from St Peter's School, Barcelona, worked on this problem in groups. Here is their report.

Yusuf from Columbia Primary School told us:

We made our cubes using modular origami. We had to measure each piece of paper to make sure it was the correct size and that it would make the right sized cube. We worked out the volume of each cube and wrote it on the side.

Kathy and Pete from Barley Hill Primary School decided to see what patterns they could find by making cuboids.

First we drew the nets of our cuboids.

We noticed that the volume of our first set where we just added one square to the length of the rectangle went up by $1$ each time. The volume of our second set went up by $4$ each time. This is different to the set of cubes in the problem which went up different amounts each time because we only changed one length of our shape.

Here is a picture of their graded cuboids.

Well done for sending in your pictures.

There are lots more shapes you could make - you could see what happens to the volume if you change more than one side of a cuboid.