Unit 3 · Math City

You're the City Planner Now

Congratulations — you've been hired as lead urban planner! A whole city is counting on you to house 10,000 people on a $125,000 budget. Your only tools: math and good judgment.

4 lessons · 100 XP 🏗️ Real decisions, no single right answer

📄 Student Worksheets (PDF) 🍎 Teacher Guide (PDF)

Your career path

🏗️ Lesson 1: City Hall Training Day Learn the planner's math — floor space, capacity, cost — and design your first building. Play now → 🏙️ Lesson 2: Build Your City Place real buildings against the budget and population goals. Play now → ⚖️ Lesson 3: The Three Cities Skyline vs. Sprawl vs. Balanced — compare designs with efficiency math. Play now → 🎤 Lesson 4: Pitch to the Mayor Defend your best design with mathematical evidence. Play now →

📦 The Big Project (2–3 weeks, on paper)

Want the full experience? Volume City is the deep, multi-week version of this unit — graph paper, three complete city designs, and a written justification. Perfect for classrooms, homeschool units, or ambitious builders.

📄 Student Worksheets (PDF) Everything the builder needs — print it! 📘 Teacher Guide (PDF) Facilitation, phases, and assessment.

💡 Why city math?

Every real city is a pile of math decisions: how tall, how wide, how much, how close. Planners who get the math right build places people love — and you're about to think exactly like one.