Planning a holiday
An investigation into planning a holiday for the Doe family, it can be used as a functional Maths lesson which requires skills from other topics. The first question was adapted from a GCSE Maths paper.
Could be used as group work, individual projects or whole class discussion.
The skills that it works on are:
Exchange rates
Reading off graphs
Problem Solving
Percentage decrease
Bearings and Loci
Reading off graphs
Time
Volume and surface area
Although it works on all of these areas, it may be possible to solve most using common sense.