Real Life Mathematics used by woodworkers

Woodwork Lock, machinery made with maths skills

Anyone working with wood, steel, construction, inventing and manufacturing uses their eyeballing skills at some point during the process. Precision instruments ensure a perfect end result.

Practice your eyeballing skills and see some of the examples of woodwork produced in real life using mathematical skills

Test your estimating skills

The Eyeballing Game

Skills practiced:

estimating, eyeballing, approximating, best guessing, practice, maths vocabulary, statistics (in the results)

Vocabulary and concepts practiced:

Parallelogram, midpoint, angle bisection, centre of a triangle, centre of a circle, right angle, convergence

result example:

Parallelogram	2.2	4.5	7.1
Midpoint	6.1	2.2	1.0
Bisect angle	3.4	4.7	9.4
Triangle center	3.1	2.4	0.2
Circle center	4.1	4.0	4.2
Right angle	2.3	1.9	0.8
Convergence	10.0	5.7	4.2