Earth Day Maths Recipe Questions Real Life Maths Word Problems Winter Maths

Earth Day Maths Recipe Questions Real Life Maths Word Problems Winter Maths. This is a recipe for making bird fat balls. It involves real life maths problems involving proportion and money with a wildlife bird theme. Perfect for Winter Maths, Earth Day Maths and environmental and ecological themed maths. There are 6 worksheets with a total of 18 multi-step questions.
This resource is perfect for KS3 and GCSE foundation students.

✎ Contents:
This resource includes:
• A recipe page with a recipe for bird fat balls.
• A shop price list for the ingredients.
• 4 worksheets with a total of 8 multi-step questions on making different amounts of the recipe.
• 2 worksheets with a total of 10 multi-step questions on costs and prices.
• Teachers notes.
• All answers.

✦ Objectives:
This resource has been designed to practice:
• Real life maths word problems.
• Using proportional relationships to solve multi-step ratio problems.
• Recognising and representing proportional relationships between quantities.
• Using ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
• Understanding the concept of a unit rate in the context of a ratio relationship.
• Understanding the concept of a ratio to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities.
• Metric measurements.
• Converting grams and kilograms.
• Multiplication and division.
• Money word problems.
• Fractions

✽ Directions:
Print out a set of worksheets for each student.
You can print out a recipe sheet and price list for each student or laminate them for students to share.

✦ Notes:
All answers are included, so you can easily mark students work.
These questions should take students at least 45 minutes to complete.

✷ Suggestions:
Your students could make the bird balls.
To make them, just melt the lard and stir in the other ingredients. Put into containers such as yogurt pots to set or shape into balls.
Use string to hang and watch the birds feast!

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