The document contains information about several castles in Europe along with math tasks related to the castles for 5th grade students. It provides details about castles such as Trakai Castle in Lithuania built in the 14th century, Nuremberg Castle in Germany built around 1050, and Rumeli Castle in Istanbul built in 1452. It includes tasks for students to order the castles by century built, recognize 2D and 3D shapes, calculate perimeters and surface areas, and draw a reflection.

1. MATH TASKS RELATED TO CASTLES OF EUROPE
PREPARED BY 5TH
CLASS STUDENTS
OF CHRYSELEOUSA PRIMARY SCHOOL
(teacher: Rodoula Georgiou)
Trakai castle in Vilnious, Lithuania (built during the 14th
century)
Nuremberg Castle inNuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
(built around 1050)

2. Paphos Castle, inPaphos, Cyprus (built in965)
Rhodes castle, alsoknownas Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of
Rhodes or Kastelo inRhodes island, Greece (built during the 14th
century)
 Total surfacearea: 420,000 squaremeters
 The length of the main street inside the complex, called the Knight΄s
street, is 200mand it΄s width is 6m.
Wawel castle inKrakov, Poland (built during the 9th
century)

3. Del Monte castle inAndria, Apulia, Italy (built in1240)
 The sides of the main octagon are 16.5 m long and those of the
octagonal towers each 3.1 m.
Rumeli castle inInstambul, Turkey (built in1452)
 The complex's total area is 31,250 squaremeters

4. Task 1
a) Find during which century each castle was built.
b) Put all of the above castles in order based on the century during which
they were built (starting from the oldest one).
c) Calculate how old is each castle.
Task 2
Observe carefully the pictures of all the castles and recognise different
two-dimentional shapes (triangles, squares, rectangles, rhombuses,
parallelograms, trapezoids, kites and any polygons).
Task 3
Observe carefully the pictures of all the castles and recognise different
three-dimentional shapes (cubes, cuboids, spheres, cylinders, cones and
any prisms or pyramids).
Task 4
a) Calculate the perimeter of the Del Monte castle.
b) Compare the total surfacearea of the Rhodes castle complex and the
Rumeli castle complex.
c) Calculate the surfacearea of the Knight΄s street in the Rhodes castle.
Task 5
Draw the reflection of this drawing of the Trakai castle (on a horizontal
axis of symmetry.