Maths mantle: Chadbury's Chocolates

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It is a regular favourite in the classroom and used for teaching many different maths units. It was so popular with the children, that I decided to make it into a bigger drama one year. So, we started with a GIANT problem! It all started with a message left on the company phone - a HUGE complaint from a disgruntled lady, who had apparently already sent letters and a fax!

Chadbury's Chocolates

Chadburys Chocolates faced some GIANT problems this week. They found out that their office system didn't work properly when they had failed to notice some letters and a fax from a disgruntled giant. It's the first time they have ever had to deal with dissatisfied customers!"Your cakes are too tiny!"Birthday cake? This is not a birthday cake. It's a mere bun!"

"I get a nice taste in my mouth, but it's gone in a flash!"

"Crispy cake! That's not a crispy cake, it's a crumb!"

The second crisis happened when somebody forgot to lock the office. The secret recipes were stolen from the safe! Fingerprints have been taken, and people have been acting suspiciously, but nobody knows where the recipes have gone. The biscuit design team have been hard at work, to create new recipes - for the GIANTS too!

Chadbury's packaging department then had to solve a big problem when they realised that their bags would not be big enough for the giant cookies.

Luckily, the clever guys in the packaging department solved the problem and came up with some great designs too!

Of course the next thing we had to do was to market our biscuits and gain some public opinion. The manager had sent a message saying that we couldn't afford to keep making giant biscuits if people didn't buy them!

Some company members decided to set up a taster session, others gave out leaflets and put up posters. After the public tasted our biscuits they said that they were fantastic and also said that any body would love them.

The manger told us that any body
who had a good design would get a pay rise!


They tested the size with a template, just the right size for the biscuits.

Chadburys chocolate employees then got to work to make some scrummy cookies. The advertising team created radio jingles to promote them.

The employees picked the jingle that they thought was the most catchy to go on air.




The company bakers got to work. Here's what they said:

We had a secret ingredient in our cookies.

We followed the recipe well and our cookies came out great.We had to make them for giants and they looked lovely and tasted lovely.

Our marketing department finally created questionnaires to make sure the public were getting the products they wanted from Chadburys chocolates. We like to keep our customers happy!

Thanks to everyone who filled in the questionnaires! It helped us to know what products we needed to create for the shops. We now have a good idea about what you enjoy eating!