Math 7

Unit 6
Authentic Assessment: Perimeter,
Area and Volume

GREEN FINAL Assessment Name:________________

Goal: To apply and demonstrate your understanding of geometric figures.

Role: You are a construction contractor that has been hired to pave the atrium with bricks.
Audience: You are preparing a proposal to Mr. Johnston that will determine if you are
competent to be hired to do the job.
Standards: The skills that you are being evaluated on are implicit in the headings below and
within the curriculum and study guide.
Performance: You will use a variety of math skills and be asked to show your understanding
through a variety of formats such as writing, drawing, and mathematical notation.

7.6-Congruence
You will be hired for the job if you are able to tile the area by understanding the relationship
between congruent shapes. Look at the hexagons below:

The hexagons “fit” (or tessellate) together with no gaps in between them. Using the
geometric shapes at station 1, answer the following questions:

1.) Do pentagons (5 sided shapes) fit together with no gaps? Explain your reasoning with
pictures, symbols or notation.
2.) What determines if a shape will tessellate, or fit together? (Hint, consider the measure of
the angles around a point)

8.1-Perimeter and Area of Rectangles and Parallelograms

Use a trundle wheel to map out the area of the atrium. Sketch the shape below and calculate
the area of each “section” in square meters.

Area: calculate the total area of the atrium in meters squared by adding up the area of each
section. Support you calculations by showing your work. (2 points)

Perimeter: Imagine that a fence needed to be built around the atrium. How much fencing
material would be needed? Show your work (2 points)
8.2-Perimeter and Area of Triangles and Trapezoids
The school is considering hiring you to lay out a garden next to the atrium. Graph and find
the area of the figure below using the formula:
1
(A = x h x (Base 1 + Base 2)
2
Show work for area here with the formula
7.) Graphing the corners of the garden

8.) Area of the garden:

8.3-Circles
9.) The contractor has asked that you make a planting bed that requires you to calculate the
shaded area below. What is the area of the shaded part of the circle below? Area of a circle=
π r 2 (Show your work)
8.4-Drawing Three Dimensional Figures
10.) Draw an isometric view of a brick and label its dimensions in cm. (1 points)

List the following about the brick:

11.) Number of faces:___________________________
12.) Number of edges:___________________________
13.) Numbers of vertices (vertexes):______________________

8.5-Volume of Prisms and Cylinders

14.) The principal Mr. Johnson wants your help in designing a swimming pool! Tell him which
shaped swimming pool below would require more water. Calculate the volume, and show
your work. (1 point)
8.7-Surface Area of Prisms and Cylinders
15.) Draw the “net” of the brick and the dimensions labeled. (The net is the three
dimensional shape laid out in one two-dimensional piece-1 point)

16.) What is the surface area of the brick?

8.9-Spheres
17.) While digging, you unearthed a baseball with a radius of 3 cm. What is the volume of the
baseball?
4
Volume of a sphere: π (r 3)
3

8.10-Scaling Three Dimensional Figures

Draw a brick whose length, width and height are three times bigger than the original.
18.) Is the volume three times bigger? Explain.
19.) If 80 bricks make up 1 m 2 calculate how many bricks you’ll have to order to pave the
atrium. (show your work)

20.) If one brick costs $0.05, how much will it cost to purchase all your bricks? Show you
work.