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How is it possible for NBHIS middle school students to offer advice on school parking area renovation? Well, it happened in our MYP math achievements presentation.

Recently, Huamao Education Group leaders, leaders of the service center, and both Chinese and foreign principals attended a special assembly in MYP. The leaders listened carefully to the Y9 students to explain how they would renovate the school parking area and frequently nodded to agree with their suggestions. The PowerPoint presentation of the students showed their renovation plans after careful consideration. The solutions were, for instance, to remove the trees for more parking lots and reduce the spacing of existing parking slots, etc.

The reason for this particular assembly was because of a special math lesson. For the students to better understand linear algebraic and integrate it with their previous studies, math teacher, Yarina, gave the Y9 students a particular assignment. She asked them to develop a solution to apply their learning to alleviate the campus parking problem by re-planning the school's parking area as she knew that the school had a plan to renovate the parking area soon.

"We were overjoyed with this assignment!" one Y9 student said excitedly. "We used knowledge of linear planning learned in math class to take meticulous field measurements of the parking area in groups. We located each tree, used a tape measure to measure the area’s length and width, and took notes. We all took it seriously, as we knew that each set of data we collected would affect our design plan. "It took several days in a row for us to prepare the data.

The students considered the parking area's restrictive conditions and the objective function they require and drew the feasible region represented by the restrictive conditions with Desmos drawing software. Then, determined the inequality group, found the optimal solution, and the optimal value of the objective function in the feasible region. As a result, they obtained the optimal solution for the number and distance of parking spaces in the school parking lot.

What surprised math teacher Yarina was that the students used Minecraft or 5D Planner to illustrate a 3D parking area and demonstrate their math knowledge. She recalled, "My initial expectation was that they could sketch the parking lot, but I didn't expect them to create a 3D design, and the final presentation surprised me. I'm very proud of them." In completing the project report, the students worked closely together, using mathematical knowledge such as measurement, linear programming, and inequalities to change their design solutions to achieve the best results.

In re-planning the parking area, students brainstormed and considered a variety of possibilities. Some groups added canopies to their design after learning that teachers often complained about the many leaves and bird droppings on their cars. Others studied the feasibility of double-decker parking to add more parking spaces, open up school parking spaces to the public for profit, etc. Although they may not be adopted as solutions to the actual problems due to labor and material costs that the proposed solutions would entail, The exercise showed that students could think out of the box. For this, they deserve affirmation and praise.

"The curriculum requires our students to participate in social service every semester. Applying mathematical knowledge to re-plan the parking area activity was also the first time I combined the curriculum with a service project. The results even exceeded my previous expectation. I will continue to offer such practical activities in Y7 and Y8 in the future." math teacher Yarina continued, "Through this project, students can develop a variety of excellent qualities in the learner development goals such as caring for others and being a good communicator, qualities that are critical to their future academic pursuits and success in life."