Workshop 1 - Lego Furniture Factory (Linear Programming)

Workshop 1 - Lego Furniture Factory (Linear Programming)

Can you help furniture company SWEDEBUILD design a new furniture range and maximise their profit? Use Lego to model the furniture and work out which combination of tables and chairs is the most profitable, and then see if you can use algebra to reach the same answer.

Curriculum areas covered:
GCSE:

• Algebra notation, vocabulary and manipulation
• Solving algebraic equations and inequalities
• Calculations with integers
• Graphs of equations and functions, interpreting graphs
  A Level:
• Algebra and functions of inequalities
  A Level: Decision/Discrete maths:
• Linear programming
• Use graphical methods to solve constrained optimisation problems and/or two variable problems where integer solutions are required

This pack includes:
 Cover Sheet
 Presentation
 Teacher Notes
 Student worksheet
 Answer Sheet

The OR technique behind this is optimization (minimum cost / maximum profit etc.). Linear programming is a commonly used OR technique and is also a major component of the Discrete/Decision module of Maths A Levels. For more information visit our website: theorsociety .com