Students will launch the city-design challenge by experiencing how community needs connect to coordinates, measurement, and layout decisions, then capture first-round evidence about what makes a city feel welcoming, safe, and easy to navigate.

Students will synthesize user needs and early math evidence into a focused city-planning problem statement that names the users, identifies the planning challenge, and sets clear criteria tied to coordinates, space, and navigation.

Students will generate multiple city-layout ideas from their defined community need, compare options using coordinates, area, perimeter, and scale reasoning, and choose one promising direction to carry into drafting.

Students will turn earlier ideas into a first workable city draft by using scale, coordinates, area, and perimeter to build a labeled map prototype and a rough 3D neighborhood model, then revise both through structured peer feedback tied to community needs.

Students will test their draft city maps and models with peers using a structured feedback protocol focused on coordinate accuracy, scale consistency, area and perimeter reasoning, and how well the design meets real community needs. They will document evidence-based feedback, identify one academic strength and one collaboration habit, and revise a specific part of the plan to prepare for the next critique phase.

Students will participate in a structured critique of their draft city maps and models, use peer feedback to identify strengths and improvement areas in coordinate placement, scale, area, perimeter, and navigation design, and record specific revisions for the next draft.

Students will present their final quadrant city designs to an authentic audience, document how feedback shaped revisions, and reflect on mathematical growth, collaboration, and next steps through a concise portfolio talk and closing reflection circle.