Plan a pizza party for your class. In particular, you'll need to decide:

• How many students are in the class?

• How much pizza will each student eat?  

   

   

• How much pizza should you order?

   

• Where will you order from?

   

• How will you choose which toppings to order?

   

• What toppings will you order?  

   

   

   

   

• What's the "best deal" you can get -- large or small pizzas? Free soda?  

   

• How much will it cost?  

   

• How will you split the cost of the pizza?  

   

   

What math topics and skills are used in this project?

How might you use this project in your class?

• Is it feasible to have a pizza party in your class?

• Are you more interested in computing price per square inch, collecting statistics on favorite toppings, using pizza pies to discuss fractions, or voting on pizza places?

   

   

   

   

• Would you use this as an ongoing project in which students research pizza prices, design charts, and give reports on relative prices then vote on a solution and order pizza, or would you make it a question on a quiz?

At Campus Pizza and Subs in Bridgewater, prices for pizza in fall 2003 were:

Size	Diameter	Plain	One Topping	Two Toppings	Three Toppings
Small	10"	$4.75	$6.00	$6.75	$7.55
Large	16"	$8.55	$9.55	$10.75	$11.55