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Scaling Concept

Demonstrations in Scaling

White painted wooden blocks assembled into a cube with additional flat slabs placed on the visible faces, showing the extra surface area needed when scaling up

Expansion Blocks

Wooden blocks that stack together show how surface area scales as and volume as when linear dimensions scale by. Place additional blocks on the faces of the base cube to …
Large clear acrylic sphere nearly full of yellow-green and orange tennis balls, resting on a cork ring base

Scaling Sphere

Challenges students' volume intuition: a clear sphere holds far more tennis balls than most people estimate. Students predict how many balls (or what fraction of two buckets) will fit, then …

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