The Spider Party

A couple of weeks ago we showed the Jelly Bean problem from Kathy Lanthois’s Year 7 class and promised more. Well here is the class Spider Party Problem.

Kathy’s class researched the best and most economical spider drinks for the spider party that they were actually going to have. 

Note: this is important. The Spider Party was a real problem not a Mickey Mouse ‘let’s pretend we going to have a party’ problem or even and Ann Baker true story. It took several days of working with surveys and taste tests, proportional reasoning, measuring and costing before the final tightly-budgeted spider-making day. The above work sample is just one of those displayed on the classroom wall. And yes of course the spider party was a huge success and the mathematics located the Spider Drink flavours that meant everyone had the spider they liked the most.

With Halloween just around the corner, Spider Parties must surely be a winner with any class!