KS4 Geometry Revision Story - Enid Blyton Inspired

TES Maths Resource of the Year 2012.

The Terrific Trio (and Dave) go Treasurehunting

Take your students on a good old-fashioned Enid Blyton style adventure. They must solve the questions throughout the story to help the terrific trio (and Dave) in their quest.

Massive literacy component to this 2000 word story.
Ideal for students around Grade 5/6/7 level (there is no Higher tier only content, but some of the puzzles are fairly challenging and require higher level understanding)

This 9 page activity could easily go into 2 or 3 lessons if you wanted it to, and contains puzzles on the following topics:
Vector arithmetic
SOH CAH TOA
Circumference and area of circles and semi-circles
Transformations - reflection, rotation, translation
Compound area
Volume of prism
Draw graphs of the form ax + by = c
Speed

Extract:
It was the summer holidays. Archibald, Beatrice, and Cassandra were outside enjoying their picnic of potted meat sandwiches and lashings of ginger beer, when they saw Dave come rushing down the lane with a battered old book in his hand. Dave was their younger, less pretty, and more dopey sibling. Archibald, Beatrice and Cassandra didn’t like to tell him this to his face – mainly because they didn’t like looking at his face. But he was their brother, and they loved him all the same.
“I’ve just found this in Aunt Mathelina’s library,” panted Dave, out of breath from running through the village. “It’s a book.”
“No way. A book? In a library? Whatever next?” piped up Beatrice sarcastically.
“Shut your mouth, Beatrice. It looks really old. I’ve flicked through it and it seems like a history of the island. There’s a page that says there has been treasure hidden around here somewhere for hundreds of years, but it’s yet to be found.”
“Golly, that sounds frightfully exciting!” exclaimed Archibald. Archibald loved a good adventure, almost more than he liked potted meat sandwiches and ginger beer. “Where do we start?”
“Well,” said Dave, “there’s a map here. It says something about victors. What are victors? Wasn’t our great-grandad called Victor? Maybe he has something to do with it.”
“VECTORS, you muppet. It says VECTORS. Give it here,” muttered Cassandra as she grabbed the dusty book and read the first of what was to be many puzzles in their adventure….