McGraw-Hill Mathematics: Grade 6, Chapter 11

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Meet Me at the Fair

Terry’s 1904 World’s Fair Page
http://www.inlink.com/~terryl/index.html

Look at these interesting buildings from a world’s fair nearly a century ago.

• Click Fair Buildings and then State Buildings.
• Click and explore California. Write its building's dimensions. Then click the Back arrow.
• Click and explore Louisiana in the same way. Answer questions 1 through 3 below.
• Click the Back arrow twice. Click The Palaces and then The Festival Hall. Answer questions 4 and 5.
• Click the Back arrow. Click The Palace of Transportation. Click the link to information about the turntable. Answer questions 6 through 9.
• Click the Back arrow twice. Click The Palace of Horticulture. Answer questions 10 through 14.
• If you have time, go back to the home page and explore more buildings.

Solve the problems using the dimensions of the buildings at the Web site.

California and Louisiana

Both the California and the Louisiana state buildings were replicas of Spanish-style structures.

1. What was the length and width of the California building?
   
   
                                                                                                                                       




2. What was the length and width of the Louisiana building?
   
   
                                                                                                                                       




3. If both buildings were rectangular and the floors were covered with tiles, how many square feet of tiles would have been used altogether?
   
   
                                                                                                                                       
   

The Festival Hall

4. The Festival Hall was a magnificent building with a circular shape. What was the diameter of the building?
   
   
                                                                                                                                       
   
   
   
5. If 30 columns were equally spaced around the outside of the building, about how far apart would the columns have been?
   
                                                                                                                                       

The Palace of Transportation

6. What was the length and width of the Palace of Transportation?
   
                                                                                                                                       
   
   
   
7. If the Palace of Transportation was rectangular, how long would a path around the Palace have been?


                                                                                                                                    



8. Inside the Palace of Transportation, a huge locomotive and tender were displayed on a turntable that revolved in a circle 75 feet in diameter. What was the area of that circle to the nearest 10 square feet?
   
                                                                                                                                       
   
   
   
9. If a railing enclosed that circle, how long would the railing have been to the nearest foot?
   
                                                                                                                                       
   
   

The Palace of Horticulture

The Palace of Horticulture had a center pavilion and two wings.

10. What was the shape of the center pavilion?
    
                                                                                                                                        




11. What was the length of each side of the center pavilion?
    
                                                                                                                                        




12. What was the length and width of each of the wings?
    
                                                                                                                                        




13. If each of the wings was rectangular, what was the total area of the Palace of Horticulture?
    
                                                                                                                                        




14. Study other buildings under The Palaces. Then create your own floor plan for a world’s fair building. You may wish to include more than one type of figure in your floor plan. The figures can be squares, rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, or circles. Make a sketch of your floor plan on grid paper and show the dimensions of the figures in your sketch. Find the area of each figure in the floor plan. Then find the total area of the building.
    
    
    
    

Math at Home

Today I explored a Web site that gave information about some of the impressive buildings that were constructed for the 1904 World’s Fair. I used the dimensions of the buildings to solve problems. The center pavilion of the Palace of Horticulture was a square that was 400 feet on each side. If you were going to cover its floor with tile, you would need                                   square feet of tile.

You can find out more about this topic by asking your teacher or parents to show you other Web sites.