How do you use a scale drawing to find the region in a lake where a treasure is located? The narrator of a short video problem identifies three criteria to determine the location of the treasure. Using a compass and ruler, he determines the region where the treasure is located.

Concepts

loci, word problems, real-world applications, scale drawings

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use different colors of pencils to shade each region with the overlapping colors to show the solution

Classroom Considerations

• Pupils should be comfortable working with scale drawings
• Assumes individuals know how to construct a perpendicular bisector

Pros

• Describes the construction that meets the criteria prior to performing the construction
• Contains templates to use for work

Cons

• None