About this Place Of Interest

Come visit this cultural landmark of Ho Chi Minh city, a granite monolith styled after Lenin’s Mausoleum in Russia. If you are lucky, you may even be able to see the changing of the guards, or pay your respects at the tomb of Vietnam’s revered revolutionary leader, Ho Chi Minh, where his embalmed body rests in a glass sarcophagus.

About this Learning Experience

Learn how to estimate the size and space of a large construction using nothing but a ruler, small object, and some mathematical reasoning. This learning experience contains content suitable for learners in Secondary 2 and above, with bonus critical thinking questions for more advanced learners Secondary 3 and above. Calculations for volume can be completed at home.

Syllabus Content

• Ratios and Proportions
• - Using ratios to construct scale drawings and models
• Volume
• - Calculating the volume of complex shapes composed of cuboids

Resources Needed

Ruler measuring tape small object (eg. water bottle ID card) calculator pen/pencil notebook