Lesson Outline for Phones for Maths

Lesson 4/5:

Students should have collated their data and now have to analyse it and decide on how they want to market their phone. They will spend most of this lesson working on designing their phone based on their findings.

They now need to be making decisions today and they will have two lessons in which to design and market the phone. They have to be told that they only have a budget of £350 per phone and they have to stick to their budget to be able to design their phone. They all need to buy the base unit which comes in whatever style they like and has a colour screen and slot for memory card as standard. Budget is as follows:

Item / Cost
Base Unit / £100
Camera / £60
MP3 Player / £25
Bluetooth / £40
Radio / £35
Infrared / £15
WAP / £20
Internet / £50
e-mail Facility / £50
Wi-fi / £55
Other Applications e.g word/excel/games / £25 each

Ensure that they are aware that they need to back up what they have put on their phones with evidence from their findings about what students want from a phone.

The students should prepare their presentations to do back to the rest of the class. They can do a poster or use PowerPoint if they wish depending on the ICT facilities of the school.

A price plan needs to be decided on as well based on their findings. The prices are £5 for 500 texts and £5 for 500 minutes. They can charge the customer whatever they like around this so if they decide to charge more this will go down as a profit for them e.g. £13 for 500 minutes and 500 texts. They need to explain why they decided on this as their price plan based on evidence from their findings.

Lesson 6:

Present back to the class with posters showing how they came up with their ideas and what the phone looks like. Each group should be given a time limit for their presentation so that it’s fair. This will obviously depend on how long lessons are and how many groups there are. The class will vote on a winner. They should be told that this is to be based on which phone they would want not on who they like the best. The winner will then go against the other winners from other classes in an assembly.

The teacher assesses each group with the form provided using APP and the students also have a chance to evaluate each other using the same kind of form.