Bicycle insurance
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World of Work

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Insurance advisor
World of Work Dimensions

Context
(Bicycle) insurance

Role
Advisors for a bicycle insurance company

Activity
Working in groups to create an instruction manual for a bicycle insurance company.

Product
An instruction/manual
Abstract
The task is to create an instruction for an insurance company on how to calculate a 'fair' insurance for a bicycle and a 'fair' compensation for a stolen bicycle. The students have to consider different variables, such as:
  • The likeliness for a bicycle to be stolen (in this area)
  • The value of different bicycles
  • The age of the bicycle, how this affects the value
The product is at written document/manual for the insurance company, where the suggested calculation are described and reasoned for. It may or may not (depending on the students’ age) include tables, graphs, diagrams, formulas etc. The problem involves making choices, justifying and defending decisions and comparing different solutions.



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Inquiry Learning

Inquiry Learning Dimensions

- Exploring situations ✓
- Planning Investigations
- Experimenting systematically
- Interpreting and evaluating ✓
- Communicating results ✓

Discipline
- Mathematics ✓
- Biology
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Engineering


Target group
- Primary Education
- Lower Secondary Education ✓
- Upper Secondary Education

Age range
11-15

Duration
100 min.

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