YEAR 2 SUMMER PROJECT MATHS The Zoo
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YEAR 2 SUMMER PROJECT
MATHS — The Zoo
Chester Zoo needs your help! See if you can become a zoo keeper and help to complete the tasks
below. You need to help with organising talk times, feeding the animals, taking ticket money and
designing a new area for the zoo. You will need to use a range of Maths skills for the job! Good luck!
Hi, I’m Melvyn. I’m a zoo
keeper at Chester Zoo and
we need your help!
White Rose Maths
White Rose have made parent booklets for the
different areas of Maths. They can be found on
this link https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/
primary-resources/parent-workbooks/ Try completing
some of the Year 2 books to recap the Year 2
Maths skills before September.
In order to feed the animals at the zoo there needs to be enough food ordered. Help the zoo keepers to order the
right amount of food to feed all the animals in the reptile and bug house. Count how many of each animal you can see
and then work out how much of each food item you need to order! I don’t like the sound of crickets!!!
Food Number Needed
Mice
Apples
Carrots
Crickets
The zoo keepers looking after the lizards have to check they are healthy by taking lots of measurements. Look at
the information gathered and help the zoo keepers to answer the questions below.
1. Which lizard is the heaviest?
2. Which lizard is the longest?
3. How heavy are lizards A, C and E
altogether?
4. How many female lizards are there?
5. Which lizard is the oldest?
6. Which lizards ages would you need to
add together to make the same age as the
oldest lizard? Is there more than one
answer?
7. How much longer is lizard D than lizard E?
8. Which lizard would you say is the most healthiest? :-)
All zoo keepers love bugs! See if you can go on a bug hunt and record how many different bugs you find. Follow these
simple steps:
Use a table like the one here to record what you find, or use the ready made
tables on the next page. Once you’ve completed your bug hunt present your
findings in a pictogram or a bar chart.
Some questions to discuss:
1. What different animals did you find on your
hunt? Were they all bugs?
2. Did you find the same number of each bug?
Why do you think that is?
3. What would happen if all the plants were taken
away in the area you hunted?
4. What do the different animals eat? Do any of
them eat living things?
Last night someone left this mysterious piece of paper for the zoo keepers to solve. Can you help them?
Fill in the numbers and then work out the answers mentally or using your tens and ones. Good luck!
Today’s job is to schedule all of the animal talks. Draw the hands on the clocks and write next to each clock what
time the talk is at and which animal it is for. For example:
Elephant talk 9.30am
This box shows how many times I went to see these animals on my visit to the zoo. Count them up and complete the
bar chart to find out which one is my favourite! :-) Then answer the questions below.
1. Which animal did I visit the least?
2. How many more times did I visit the lions
than the penguins?
3. How many fewer times did I see the pandas
than the tigers?
4. How many times did I visit the different
animals altogether?
Your job today is working at the ticket booth. Work out how much you need to charge each of the visitors below. Use
your mental maths skills or tens and ones to help you. Remember if it’s money you must remember to use the £.
1. 2 adults and 1 child
2. A family and 1 concession
3. 1 adult and 4 children
4. 2 concessions, 1 student and 1 child
5. 1 adult, 1 child and 2 students
6. 1 student and 3 children
7. 4 adults
8. 4 students
9. 2 families and 1 adult
10. 3 adults and 4 children (How are they best buying their tickets?)
Adult £15
Child £10
Concessions £12
Student £13
Family Ticket (2 adults and
2 children)
£25
Now you have completed your induction period as a zoo keeper, you are ready for promotion. The zoo owner has
decided to open a second zoo in Stoke-On-Trent. They would like you to choose which animals to put in the zoo, but
you only have so much space to use. You have 100 squares to use. Below you can
see how much space each animal enclosure needs. Choose where they go on your
map and see which animals you can fit in. You don’t have to use them all.
Tigers 12 squares
Lions 15 squares
Elephants 20 squares
Meerkats 4 squares
Zebras 8 squares
Red pandas 6 squares
Rhinos 14 squares
Giraffes 10 squares
Lizards 3 squares
Spiders 2 squares
Leaf cutter ants 1 square
Jaguar 9 squares