Author: frankie

Park building
Challenge.

Following the recent unsuccessful attempt to create a dinosaur related theme park on ‘Isla Nublar’, you have been handed the task of creating a new and improved ‘Jurassic World’.
Use your maths skill and knowledge to finance the project , use your knowledge of dinosaurs to carefully place them in your theme park and use your knowledge of people to staff the park and make it an enjoyable and most importantly SAFE! Experience for your visitors.
Do you accept the challenge?

Dinosaurs.

It wouldn’t be a dinosaur park without dinosaurs, so your first job is to choose what dinosaurs you would like in your park.
Think carefully:
*Which dinosaurs will be the most exciting?
*Which dinosaurs will take the most looking after and could be dangerous?
*Do you need more than one of each type?
You have $100,000 (one hundred thousand) Dino dollars to stock your park with dinosaurs, spend wisely.

Edmonosaurus
$5500

Indominus Rex.
$10,000

Dino Deals!!!
Buy 3 of the same dinosaurs save 10%
Buy 5 save 20%
Excludes I-Rex, T-rex and Mosasaurus

Velociraptor
$3000

Triceratops
$5000

Suchomimus
$1500

Dimorphodon
$3500
$2000

Tyrannosaurus Rex
$8000

Mosasaurus
$6500

Ankylosaurus
$2500

Pachycephalosaurus
$1000

Microceratus
$250

Dino Deals.
Buy an I-Rex, T-Rex or a Mosasaurus and get the second half price!

Apatosaurus
$4500

Pteranodon
$500

Stegasaurus
$3250

Dinosaur shopping list.

Name of Dinosaur.	Quantity	Price.
	Total

attractions.

Your park needs other attractions other than the dinosaurs. You have $50,000 dinosaur dollars to spend on attractions.

Hotel
$7000

Restaurant.
$5000

Toilets / bathroom.
$500

Train around the park.
$10,000

Dino Roller Coaster.
$10,000

Mosasaurus Aquarium
$15,000

Dinosaur Burger and Drinks Van.
$2000

Dinosaur Petting Zoo.
$2000

Attractions page 2.

Dinosaur Museum.
$3500

Gyrosphere Ride.
$2200

Virtual Dinosaurs
$3,000

Dinosaur Carousel
$4,000

Jurassic Bank
$2,500

Souvenir Shop
$500

Flying Dinosaur Dome
6,000

attractions shopping list.

Name of Attraction.	Quantity.	Price.
	Total

Employing staff.

Every business needs staff to make sure everything runs smoothly.
Think carefully about.
*keeping your park clean.
*Keeping visitors amused.
*Keeping things running smoothly.
*What attractions do you have? Who will look after these?
You have $10,000 Dino dollars a week to pay your staff wages.

Dinosaur Trainer.
$1000 a week.

Cleaner
$150 a week.

Security Guard.
$250 a week.

Chef
$500 a week.

Ride Operator
$225 a week.

Park Entertainer
$300 a week.

Fast Food Staff
$100 a week.

General Duties - shop, bank, hotel staff.
$200 a week

Mosasaurus Trainer
$1,300 a week.

Employees.

Type of Employee.	Quantity.	Wage per week
	Total

Your visitors will need feeding so your next challenge is to create a dinosaur themed menu.
What will you have on your menu?
What will you charge? Too expensive and people will not buy your food, too cheap and you will not make any money.
Will you have any special offers or meal deals?
Will you have a vegetarian menu?
Use your imagination, try to make your food sound fun and tasty.
Below is an example of a dinosaur themed menu to help.

Dinosaur diner menu.

Dino Diner Menu.

Dino Diner Menu.

Your next challenge is to create a map of your Jurassic theme park.
Think carefully about:
Where to place you dinosaurs—remember you can only place dinosaurs that you have bought for you park.
Complete the key so that visitors can use your map.
Fill in co-ordinates for people to follow.
Create ten questions about your map and ask somebody else to answer them—try to include co-ordinates, directions and positions.
Here is an example:

Map of the park.

Create a map.

Key

Close up of Visitor’s Centre.

You might want to cut out and stick some of these icons on your map.

Ten Questions About my Map.

Catch a Dinosaur Game.

At the park you have a game in which you get three chances to catch three dinosaurs. You win a prize if the total is 10.
How many ways can you make 10 using 3 dinosaurs?
What if you had to score 12?
If the dinosaur had multiples of 10 and you had to score 90, how many ways could you do this?
What is the lowest / highest score you could get by catching 3 dinosaurs?

Ticket prices.

You park is finally open to the public and the visitors are streaming in:
Ticket prices are $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for children.
Can you work out how much was taken on the gate for each month below.

Takings

Which months were most popular?
Why do you think this is?
What would the takings be if children were free?
Extension: What are the total takings for the year.