Y6 Theme park maths
I’m going to spend the next few weeks working with my Year 6s on designing a theme park in maths.
It’s based on an idea found on Teaching Ideas. The Primary Teacher Resource Centre have added new sections, smartboard files and an advert activity.
The idea is quite similar to the Theme Park sim games available.
I used the idea last year, but my class quickly got bored with the repetitive calculations needed. So I’ve written a spreadsheet to automatically calculate profits, etc.
Download here: Theme park spreadsheet
I’m going to make them do the first few days of calculations using a calculator, then introduce them to the spreadsheet and show them how this makes the task much quicker and easier. I’ll also introduce the idea of being able to easily change items and look at the effect this has. It’s written so that the children only have to input numbers into the green cells, some of which have drop-down boxes.
I’m hoping to then move on to writing some simpler spreadsheets, which is something we haven’t really covered yet in ICT.
Filed under: ICT, Maths, Problem solving, Y6-7 Transition, Year 6
