Estimating the cost of materials
Pre-Technical Studies · Grade 9 · about 40 minutes
Count it from the cutting list, price it locally, and check it against the brief.
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- 9 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
- Your progress kept across every subject you take
Other lessons in this sub-strand
- What a project is
- Exploring the locality for problems
- Choosing a problem worth solving
- The design brief
- Brainstorming solutions
- Research and the specification
- Developing possible items
- Selecting the item
- Sketching the item
- The working drawing
- The cutting list
- Estimating the cost of materials
- Planning the making
- A risk assessment
- Preparing the materials
- Marking out and cutting
- Assembling the item
- Finishing the item
- From cost to price
- Testing, evaluating and presenting