Some practical ideas for using the London 2012 Games as the launch pad for creative enterprise projects linked to maths.
Financial capability and enterprise education link together naturally through budgeting, cash flow management and working out profit and loss on the creation and sales of merchandise, for example.
Financial management of events
Any enterprise or special London 2012 event you’re planning to get involved in will provide creative opportunities to develop student’s financial management skills. For example, try working out the cost of making and selling drinks or healthy snacks at a sports event such as National School Sport Week, or at your own mini-Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Have you got what it takes?
For younger or less able secondary students, Have you got what it takes? is an enterprise resource that challenges the students to work as a team to make a bid to become an approved host of a Pre-Games Training Camp. It has a strong budgeting element related to risk management.
BP Trading Game
For older or more able students, BP ‘the official Oil and Gas Partner for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games’, has teamed up with London 2012 to create The Enterprise Trading Game. Students take part in a simulation of real-life oil trading. They work together in teams, responding to world events that affect the price of crude oil.
Resources include films, news slides, a trade calculator spreadsheet, teacher notes and a trader pack.
