Designing Floor Plans

By Platform Administrator · Submitted Sep 30, 2026

Content Area: Mathematics
Grade: 10

Mr. and Ms. Cavicchi purchased 20 acres of land in New Hampshire and would like to build a vacation home on the property. Each student has been hired to design a floor plan for a one-story vacation cabin, using specified guidelines, to sell to Mr. and Mrs. Cavicchi. Students create and present proposals for the design using specified criteria.

MA Standards

GEO.G-MG.A.3

Apply geometric methods to solve design problems (e.g., designing an object or structure to satisfy physical constraints or minimize cost; working with typographic grid systems based on ratios).*

SMP.4

Model with mathematics.

Resources

Designing Floor Plans Task Template (PDF) PDF · 171 KB
Designing Floor Plans Task Template (Word) DOCX · 1.59 MB
Student Directions DOCX · 40.7 KB
Designing Floor Plans Rubric DOCX · 1.54 MB
IB Rubric DOCX · 31.8 KB

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