This free teaching resource is from Innovative Teaching Resources. You can access hundreds of their excellent resources here. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Innovative-Teaching-Ideas The Galactic theme park is a brilliant maths project for students from years 3 - 9. It offers a great range of mathematical challenges and students will love the creativity associated with it. Everything is included here. Teachers and Students will need to work through the download both the booklet and Grid paper required to complete the task and I have also included a PowerPoint as an overview of how the project works for you to introduce it to students. This is a great authentic assessment task for students and will keep them busy and engaged for at least 4 - 5 lessons. Enjoy.

1. Galactic Theme
Park
Open ended Maths project for years 5 – 9
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2. The year is 2050. Man is now
colonising Outer Space and you have
decided to open the first Galactic
theme park in history.
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3. • You must carefully decide what
sort of rides you are going to
have. You also need to think
about the other facilities
visitors will need when they
come to your theme park like
toilets, cafes, shops and paths
between all the facilities and
rides.
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4. • Many theme parks have different
areas that are ‘themed’. In other
words they might have an African
area, a wild west American area or
an Old England area. Think
You must carefully what you want to
carefully about
have in yours.
decide what sort of
rides you are going to
have. You also need to
think about the other
facilities visitors will
need when they come
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5. Setting up your theme park
• You will need to take on board the following
information:-
• Use an A3 piece of graph paper to design your
‘Lunar’ theme park.
• You must use a scale of 1 square : 10m2.
• The spending limit is $5,000,000 , which must
not be exceeded.
• There must be car parks for your visitors to
use. You will need to allow 10m² for every 2
cars and assume that there is an average of 3
people visiting per car.
• There must be toilets for your visitors to
use. You will need 1 toilet block per 1000
people visiting.
• There must be cafes and stuff for nerdy for your
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7. ‚How can we see
everything?‛
• Create a pamphlet that
offers the ideal route for
adults and the ideal route
for children to take
through the park. Be sure to
include map coordinates and
compass directions so the
customers know where
they’re going.
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8. Entry Fee
Think of a fee to charge each
person to enter your park. Not too
steep but enough so you will make
a profit.
Entry fee = $......................................
You now need to calculate the
daily gate takings.
To run your theme park the
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9. Determine your daily costs to
maintain the park:
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10. Income
• On average, each visitor will spend
$15 at each café and $10 in each shop
plus their entry fee.
• Total $.................................
• How many people do you need to
have come to the park to make
your money back interest free?
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11. Use the following table to
calculate the income
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12. Profit and Loss
• Each visitor to your theme park
will spend;
– $15 at each café you have
– $10 at each shop you have
• Using the gate numbers from the
previous section, work out your
total profit from the admission
price (gate), cafes and shops.
• Then take away your total costs
that you have already worked out
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13. Use the following table to
calculate your profit and
loss
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14. EXTENSION TASK:
• How long will it take you to recoup
the $5 million with no interest?
• Assuming the interest rate is at 6.23
% per annum, use compound interest
to calculate how long it will take
you to recoup the $5 million.
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15. Advertising Budget
• You have to decide on the type of advertising
you want to use to promote your theme park.
The costs of the different types is given
below.
– Design your advert.
• Present it to the class.
– Your class will give you a rating of 1, 2 or 3
depending on how good they think your advert is,
1 being the best.
• The number of extra visitors your advert
will bring in per day depends on your rating.
– Work out the total extra profit you will
get from your advertising.
– Was your advertising worth the cost?
– Was your advertising successful?
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16. Advertising Costs
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