1. Celebrity Decorating: Team Roles
Project Manager
In charge of the team, makes sure everyone is doing what they should, when they should
Teams of 3: Your Project Manager and Celebrity needs to be the same person
Designer
Decides how the team will tackle each problem, draws out any diagrams that are needed
Labourer
In charge of all calculations and workings out
Responsible for writing out all workings
Teams of 5: You needs to have two labourers
Celebrity
Reads out the questions to the team
Checks all results to ensure they are accurate

2. Celebrity Decorating: Rules
Work as a team to answer all questions
Non participation = points deducted
Stuck? Talk through the question first
Still stuck? Call in an expert to help you
Finished? Check your answer then ask for the extension work

3. Celebrity Decorating: Warm Up
Bob the builder has got all of this area formulas in a mess
Can you help him fix it?
On your sheet, join the shape names to the right pictures and area formulas

4. Area Formulas – Did you fix them?
Rectangle
Length x Width
Triangle
½ Base x
Vertical Height
Parallelogram
Base x
Vertical Height
Trapezium a
A = ½(a + b) x h h b

5. Ask for the Rhianna Question
1.8 m
Celebrity Decorating
You need to help these celebrities decorate their homes
Answer each question on squared paper, showing clear workings – you will get extra points for this
Ask for the Rhianna Question
Stuck on a question?
Call in an EXPERT to help you

6. How many square metres of wallpaper will she need?
Paris Hilton
Paris wants to wallpaper her bedroom. One wall is a rectangle with length 4m by 2.5 m. The other wall is a rectangle with length 3 m by 2 m.
How many square metres of wallpaper will she need?

7. 2 songs Victoria and David
1.8 m
Victoria and David
Victoria and David are having their swimming pool re-tiled. The swimming pool has a rectangular base and measures 8m by 11m. The tiles they wish to buy are 20cm by 20cm. How many will they need to tile the pool?
20cm
20cm
2 songs

8. 2 songs Beyonce and Jay-Z
1.8 m
Beyonce and Jay-Z
Beyonce and Jay-Z are decorating their home. They wish to carpet the lounge shown in the diagram below. The carpet they are buying costs $120 a square metre. How much will it cost in total to re-carpet their home. 5m 3m 5m
20m
17m
2 songs

9. 1.8 m
Kardashians
0.4m
The Kardashians want to frame a giant picture of their family using the frame above. The border will be platinum which costs £390 per square metre. Work out the total cost of the frame.

10. Extension: Rhianna
Rihanna has recently moved into a new house with strange shaped pool. She wants to put a deck all around the pool. What is the area of the deck?
21m
15m
15m
Pool
10m
Deck
20m
25m

11. Plenary: Question Challenge
Create your own decorating question
Rules:
They must be area questions
You must work out the answers
You must allocate marks to each part
You only have 10 minutes to write them

12. The area of a triangle is base x height Area can be measured in m3
Plenary: True or False?
The area of a
triangle is
base x height
Area can be
measured in m3

13. Finding the area of a parallelogram involves knowing its height
Plenary: True or False?
Finding the area of a parallelogram involves knowing its height
cm2 is a unit
of measurement
with area

14. A = ½(a + b) x h The area of a rectangle is the This is the
Plenary: True or False?
A = ½(a + b) x h
This is the
formula for the
area of a Trapezium
The area of a
rectangle is the
same as the area
of a parallelogram