Ramp Design

By Platform Administrator · Submitted Sep 30, 2026

Content Area: Mathematics
Grades: 9-11

Students are asked to design an access ramp, which complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements, to make our school more accessible. Students collect data, research standards and develop a ramp design to determine costs, using local pricing, for two types of ramps, wooden and concrete.

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).*

MII.G-SRT.C.8

Use trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to solve right triangles in applied problems.*

MIII.G-GMD.B.4

Identify the shapes of two-dimensional cross-sections of three-dimensional objects, and identify three-dimensional objects generated by rotations of two-dimensional objects.

SMP.1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

Resources

Ramp Design Task Template (PDF) PDF · 154 KB
Ramp Design Task Template (Word) DOCX · 1.59 MB
Student Directions DOCX · 12.3 KB
Ramp Design Rubric DOCX · 1.54 MB
Student Reflection DOCX · 9.65 KB

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