Miniature Golf Project

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Miniature Golf Project

• Your group represents a golf course design and
  construction company
• There will be 6 members per group with the
  following responsibilities
• Course Designer
• Consulting
• Hole Designer
• Accounting
• Marketing
• Technical Support

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Course Designer

• Make nine holes on Geometers Sketchpad, each as
  a separate sketch
• Find area, perimeter, and direct distance to hole
  for each one
• Be sure not to count interior edges between
  different areas
• Use color
• Pocket diameter is 3in., but you can use a
  point in the sketch
• Show the scale for each hole
• Assume all holes are flat
• Make overall course map showing all holes
• Use dilations and reflections to put all holes
  together
• Show the scale used
• Dont worry about area between holes (or cost of
  constructing that area)

3
Consulting

• List geometry standards used in making of course
• Work alongside course designer to show
  hole-in-one route with a dotted line
• Adjust hole shape if necessary
• You should always make it possible to get a
  hole-in-one
• Use reflections
• Decide on realistic par for each hole (at least 2)

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Sample Hole 1

• Area (with pocket) 32.27 sq.ft
• Perimeter 35.91ft
• Distance 10.58ft
• Par 2

5
Sample Hole 2

• Area (with pocket) 33.62 sq.ft
• Perimeter 43.89ft
• Distance 8.95ft
• Par 2

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Sample Hole 3

• Area (w/pocket, w/o bumpers) 21.35 sq.ft
• Perimeter (w/bumper edges) 40.59ft
• Distance 8.78ft
• Par 3

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Sample course layout

• Uses sample holes 2,3
• Use rotations and dilations

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Hole Designer

• Make a scale model of a single hole
• Use a shoe box, wood, styrofoam, whatever works
  best
• Calculate area and perimeter using geometric
  formulae (not using GSP)
• Indicate the scale

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Accounting

• You will need to come up with the costs of
  construction using the following data (and
  ignoring labor, etc.)
• Turf1.25/sq.ft
• Trim around hole,bumpers 0.25/ft.
• Cement bumpers2.50/sq.ft
• Pocket5 each
• Calculate the following
• Costs for each hole
• Cost for each material
• Total costs

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Marketing

• Decide on a company name, a golf course name, and
  golf course theme
• Design advertising and/or other information
• Design the score card, listing par and direct
  length for each hole
• List course rules and costs to play
• Lead the presentation of your group

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Technical Support

• Put all Geometers Sketchpad, Excel, and all
  other documents from your group members into a
  PowerPoint/MacWorks presentation
• Make it look good!
• Explain all the geometry used in the design of
  the course

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Assessment

• Each group is responsible for a PowerPoint
  presentation, a copy for me on diskette of your
  presentation, and a scale model of a hole Im
  not collecting anything else
• Every group member gets the same grade, except
  for obvious exceptions
• If you think youre done with your job, help
  someone else in your group!
• Each individual grade (for each job) will be a
  score from 1 to 10, then all of it scaled to 100
• This project is worth 2.5 of your grade
• You will have 4 days of computer room time, with
  presentations on the last half of the 4th day
• GET ORGANIZED ASAP