Year 5 and 6 Maths Activities Week 15th June

This week we are having a Theme Park Week. You will design and plan your own theme park, within

a given budget! This project will also run in English where you will be creating persuasive adverts and

magazine reviews. In addition, you will be sticking to the theme for your afternoon work!

Activity 1 and Activity 2: (these two activities should be spread over two days)

Do Maths before English!

Read through the following slides to learn about what you will need to include in your theme park.

As you go along, remember to keep track of your budget. By the end of today’s activity, you should

have a first draft plan (see squared sheet at end of slides – remember 1 sq = 50m sq) and a building a

budget plan (see sheet at end of slides).

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• Using the squared paper, design a plan for your theme park.

• You must have 3 distinct areas

• Make sure you use the correct scaled area for each item. Remember each cm sq = 50m2

• Have you included all the suggested amenities?

• Once you have drawn your plan, complete the Building a Budget sheet.

• Have you kept your building costs under £4 million? If not, amend your plan.

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• Make sure you include a 50m safety border around each item in your park

• Calculate your costings. How much have you over/under spent by?

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• What area will cost the most to build?

• How might you regain some of the costs from possible income? (hint: what is surrounding your expensive rides?)

Activity 3:

Classroom/Home Olympics!

To get you in the mood for fun and fast rides, read the instructions then watch the video:

Stand behind your chair and run on the spot. When the driver jumps in their sled,

sit down in your chair. Lean left when the driver steers left, lean right to go right.

Lean forward to go faster and lean back at the end to slow down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_zg4rVFP9g

Running costs for your theme park:

Today you will be calculating the estimated running costs for your theme park. You will need to

consider various behind the scenes costs. What might these be?

Read through the slides below before completing the Estimated Running Costs sheet (at end of

slides).

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With support

• Look at your park plan and input details on

Estimated Running Costs sheet

• Using column addition and subtraction, calculate overall running costs.

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• What is your biggest expense?

• What type of rides would you need to install to lower the running costs?

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• Calculate how much of your original business loan will be needed for first two weeks of operation

• How could you reduce running costs without reducing the integrity of the park?

Activity 4:

Working out entrance fees for your theme park

Work through the slides, making notes (if needed) before completing the Working Out Entrance

Fees sheet. You will need to create more than one costing before you are happy with your

predicted profit and ticket prices etc.

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With support Calculate daily running costs

• Make predictions for visiting adults and children

• Decide on potential ticket cost

• Calculate potential revenue from predicted visitors

• Subtract running costs

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• Calculate and compare two potential ticket prices

• What is the difference between costing scenarios?

• Which is the most realistic/value for money?

• Could you offer an incentive?

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• Include costings for possible family ticket price

• What might the percentage in profit be for each scenario?

Activity 5: (After English)

Annual Profit: Your theme park has now been open for 12 whole months! Wow! That time just flew

by! Now it is time to work out your annual profit, see how effective your marketing was and

compare your profits with other theme parks in the class (or with friends!).

Read through the slides, while keeping the Annual Profit activity sheet and your proposed figures for

the park to hand. REMEMBER RUNNING COSTS!!!

Complete the sheet for each month’s profit before totalling for your total profit.

Finally, share your profit with the class/friends/family. How could you have improved your business?

Could you have advertised differently to make an impact of profit? Did you target your customers

accurately?

You will be using percentages today so if you have forgotten, or are not sure, have a watch of the

video:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znjqtfr/articles/zcfyw6f

Remember to find 1% divide by 100

To find 10% divide by 10

To find 50% divide by 2 (to find half)

What might you do to find 23%

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With support

• Calculate weekly customers (adult and child)

• Calculate weekly entrance fee takings

• Find total of adult and child income

• Multiply x 4 to get estimated monthly income

• Subtract two week’s running costs

• You now have month 1’s profit

• Calculate % increase of advertising for first month (remember to subtract running costs)

• Complete Annual profits sheet for Month 1’s profit

• Continue and calculate % increase for each month (see slides for information and remember running costs!)

• Calculate annual profit

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• Calculate profit for adult tickets against child tickets

• Would you have made more of a profit if you had a family ticket?

• Calculate projected profit using family ticket costs.