Ideal for STEM and re-usable at only £39.95
So how do you give young people the opportunity to solve problems and develop creative thinking skills whilst they are still at school?
STEM resources have been developed to provide teachers with a way of giving students experience of solving problems and gaining confidence in how to respond to challenges. Good maths based problem solving exercises are hard to come by.
So in order that students might see how things can easily go wrong and how, by working together and sharing information they can go right, we’ve put together a business exercise called Safe Delivery which is designed to give students experience of solving a difficult maths based problem and to develop creative thinking skills.
The exercise is suitable for small teams of KS4 and 6th form students who will each act as managers in a business. Each manager will have individual briefing notes which they must read carefully and then communicate to the rest of their team.
The Scenario – The MD has ordered a huge fire resistant storage cabinet for the business that will house a new ‘server’ on which information will be stored. It is Friday afternoon and the cabinet is being delivered Saturday morning. It must be installed in the General Office by Monday morning – an office floor plan of the building is provided. A team meeting is called and the managers sit down to work out how this problem will be undertaken.
This resource contains: For the students:
A memo that sets out the task
5 detailed briefs for different managers in the business and one scribe
A floor plan of the office building showing all the obstacles that need to be overcome
For the teacher:
Clear teachers’ guidance notes that explain how to run the exercise
A snapshot crucial information chart
The written solution
The solution on a power point presentation
There are more details at…
http://c-l-e.co.uk/buy-teaching-resources-online/safe-delivery-exercise/
You can pay and download the exercise direct from our website using Paypal or you may wish to pay with a purchase order number. Simply e-mail your purchase order number to us and we will send the exercise to you along with the invoice for payment. For more information e-mail Julie@c-l-e.co.uk