Over the last couple of weeks, Year 6 have been working collaboratively to run our very own bakery. We have applied lots of different areas of the maths curriculum we have mastered this year to this real-life project:

First we had to scale the recipes looking at ratio and proportion.

Then we had to calculate the costings for the ingredients and research which shops offered the best value by looking at unit conversions, comparisons, percentages and different deals.

Next, we looked at profit and loss and calculated how much money we would make and what we would need to sell the cupcakes for in order to not make a loss.

After that, we explored packaging and worked hard designing the nets for a single cupcake box and a double cupcake box. We had to draw accurately and use our knowledge of perimeter, area and volume.

We had to tackle some real-life baking problems, calculating cooking times and the mass. This required our knowledge of algebra, fractions and ratio.

We then got busy baking, following our recipes to create our delicious cupcakes.

We have made £198 profit in total across Year 6! Well done!