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