Mr. Hickey was VERY impressed by your work on the Merry Go Round and wondered if you could help him out with this latest project his youngest son is working on.

He is supposed to make and decorate a kite!

Needs:

Total area of kite

Perimeter of kite (his son insists he wants to put silver ribbon all the way around the outside!)

Area of little triangles for tail.

The distance down the spine where the spar should cross (this distance is supposed to be 20% of the length of the spine ).

The distance between the little bow ties

Has:

One 90 cm dowel for the spine (vertical part)

One 80 cm dowel for the spar (horizontal part)

One utility knife to make a notch in the spine.

A 40 cm piece of string for the tail

Some fabric for the equilateral triangles that have a side measurement of 8 cm

1. Start with Noticing and Wonderings: Go back and reread the kite page and note down some things you noticed and some things you wondered about.

NOTICE WONDER

2. Label what you can (on to the picture of the kite) using info from your notices.

3. Put question marks (on the picture) where there are things you wondered about.

4. What math could you do to help Mr. Hickey and his son? Show it here.

KEEP your math organized and LABELED so they can follow your work and your conclusions.