Maths – it’s all in the bag!

Solid shapes and their nets http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/solid/index.htm#cubenet

What sort of shapes make a shopping bag?

What renewables are involved in the bags you have looked at?

How do bag size/quality and shopping habits affect our

environment?

Why are supermarket bags of a certain size?

Look at storage of shopping in the boot of a car or other space.

Design a survey of shopping habits from local supermarkets.

What would you expect the bags to hold?

How many food miles has your product travelled to reach your

dinner table? Transport

Carbon emissions (kg per km)

Walk 0.00

Bicycle 0.00

Bus 0.09

Train 0.06

Motorbike

0.10

Car 0.21

Plane 0.16

Packaging