Theme Park Maths Investigation

A detailed and comprehensive maths investigation based on designing and running your own theme park.

Task 1: Planning your site using squared paper on a £500,000 budget
Task 2: Running your theme park
Task 3: Deciding on entry price (revised)
Task 4: Profit on entry fee (revised)
Task 5 - Profit & Loss
Task 6 - Annual Profit
Task 7 - Making Improvements
Task 8 - Running your theme park
Task 9 - Entry Fee
Task 10 - How many visitors?
Task 11 - What are your profits
Task 12 - Taxes and Insurance
Task 13 - Your loan

18 further tasks now included taking you up to the final season (season 3)

The investigation gives the children opportunities to practise key aspects of number including adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing and finding percentages of numbers.

The investigation takes the children through step by step, they are in complete control of their spending and decide exactly what is included in their park. It also gives the children an insight to running a business with taxes, insurance and running costs all included. They learn about the power of marketing and the effect this has on the visitors to their park and their profit.

We have also included a spreadsheet which children can type into to work out their profit or loss and a smart board file to help with your teaching.

Finally, we have added a ‘design an advert’ competition where the winner wins some spending money for their park.