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How to store grain?
Lets explore some possible containers

Once you have decided

on a container.
You need to measure
how much grain it can
hold.

15 minutes
Share Ideas: Pros and cons
Hoppers
What do you have?
Generalising
 Going into business as a hopper
designer.
Farmer Doyle has the cuboid
section of his hopper which holds
125m3 of wheat. He wants to add
this funnel section to the cuboid
section.

How much wheat will the total

hopper hold?

Ignoring the small how at the

bottom that allowing an opening

166.7m3
Class effort
 Going into business as a hopper designer.
1) This hopper is waiting in the
warehouse to be sold.
a) What is the volume of the hopper?
b) The price of this hopper is £15 for
1a) 249.6m 3can
every m2 of grain the hopper
contain how much should this hopper
b) £3744
be sold for?
2) a) What is the clearance of the
hopper outlet to the ground?
2a) 3m
b) The hopper has a width of 12m.
The cuboid section can how
1800m3 of flour, what amount of
b) 2052m 3
the flour can the hopper hold in
total?
 Going into business as a hopper
designer.
• Farmer Giles wants the pyramid section of his
square based hopper to hold 561cm3 what
dimensions could the hopper be?
• Flo the flour farmer wants her hopper to be
no taller than 20metres so that it is not taller
than her barn but she needs it to hold 895m3.
what dimensions could the hopper be?
 What mathematics have we used?
What skills have you practised?

What do you think where the intended

learning objectives?
 Intended objectives:
• To design different nets
• To calculate volume of simple shapes
• To calculate volume of complex shapes
• To use formula
• To create formula
• To solve complex geometrical problems
• To use trial and error
• To consider functionality and apply mathematics
to real life problems.
• Can we gernalise that?
• We know how to generalise for the volume of
cuboids.
• Lets explore the a prism shape.
• You have done so well in inventing a gernal
formula, a company is willing to pay to desgn
hoppers,
 Rough lesson plan.
• Introduce idea of a hopper.
• How to find its volume. Why is it pointed?? Why do we need to
know it volume????
• Splitting it up into lots of trapezoidal prisms. The smaller the
trapezium the more accurate we can be.

• Can we generalise this........... Not really......why would we need to

generalise???
• New approach we know how to calculate the volume of a cuboids
how does that compare to a pyramid. (or cylinder and cone)
experiment trial and error. Compare the formula. Can we
generalise. ..........
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Outlet: in cm
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Clearance: ft m
Freeboard: in cm
 Mechanical parts
A general term for a chute with additional
width and depth for temporary storage
Hopper (particulate collection container), a
large container used for dust collection
Part of a combine harvester
A storage container used to dispense granular
materials through the use of gravity,
sometimes assisted by mechanical agitation,
an example is a paintball loader

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