In this exercise, students manufacture and trade paper airplanes. They are able to purchase airplane designs and colouring pens from the teacher to improve the design of the airplane. The activity goes through several rounds of manufacture and trade. Finally, students discuss what strategies are most successful in the game. 

• Develop essential numeracy skills

• Understand money and the concepts of profit, loss, cost, and value

This unit has a creativity and critical thinking focus:

• Generate several approaches to pose/solve math problems

• Explain the strengths and limitations of different ways to pose/solve a maths problem

• Consider several perspectives and reflect on chosen maths approaches relative to possible alternatives

Resources

Other Resources

• A4 sheets of paper, coloring pens, pencils

• Instruction on how to make airplanes downloaded and printed out from http://www.foldnfly.com/index.html#/1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2 about 25 - 30 different plane designs should be downloaded.

English Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jtCzYHLz7RFuhGSeegTNbknwPxesV1O2SZG6xKAWBQc/edit?usp=sharing

Hindi Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FE4X0SWE03-bFpZgvhdaqsh-Dso0sOoLpidTJOJqyUY/edit?usp=sharing

Gujarati Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HrQCv0zrfhGyp-XaB_MuRkuMDwcQoBz6DDUaeIvLbs8/edit?usp=sharing 

Kannada Version

• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xs6ClKsprrNLLZ7OLMeL34gCJgT9kCoslhDHszMPJis/edit?usp=drive_link