To encourage students’ confidence and ability in applying maths concepts to practical tasks and challenges. Working in pairs and groups, students will share their own knowledge, apply this in the process of making pizzas and use a range of maths concepts including calculating the cost of food items, working within a budget, working with money, placing numbers by order high to low and estimating. Fractions are also introduced as part of the reflection.

The students are asked by a local Pizza Chef for advice as children do not want to eat at their restaurant. The students explore their knowledge of pizza and the gaps they have in that knowledge. They have to negotiate with a partner to create a pizza that they would both like to eat. This is then made from a range of craft materials and then in pairs the students calculate how much it would cost to make. Students make real pizza with a budget set by the Pizza Chef. Using money, they purchase the ingredients from the pizza shop and make and eat their own pizzas. They guess and then calculate the most popular pizza ingredients. The theme ends with the students sharing their findings with the Pizza Chef so that they can create a new children’s pizza menu.