Party Planning Resource - Products and Prices

This resource is really useful for a fun end of term or Christmas maths or Enterprise activity related to planning a party. This is also great for honing team work skills as the pupils may have a strong difference of opinion and need to compromise.

Simply choose a budget and send groups off to plan the best whole class party for their money. Pupils have to figure out whether the special offers are really that special and if the branded products are really worth the extra money. There are many ways that you could assess this activity, but I went round and talked to the children, asking them to justify why they had made certain choices.

Maths Coverage

• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimals,
• Ratio
• Measures
• Money
• Problem Solving
• Reasoning
• Using a calculator (if desired)

I followed this up with a discussion on healthy eating: what foods do we normal eat at parties? Are there healthier alternatives? This proved to be a really interesting and extremely worthwhile activity and resulted in a healthy end of term party.

As well as PDF, the resource is provided in Word format to give you the opportunity to edit.