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 : Trend Task: Pies
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Approach: Station Level: Year 8
Focus:   Generating possible solutions and related strategies 
Resources: 7 blank stickers
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Questions/instructions:
Some people who make and sell lots of pies want to invent a new kind of pie. Before they make lots of a new kind of pie, there are lots of things to think about and find out about.

% responses
2004 ('00)
y8
l. Think about each thing they would need to do, before they start to make the pies.  
2. Write each thing on a sticker — but don’t stick them down yet.
3. Put your stickers into the order that things will be done.
4. Now stick the stickers onto the answer page.
5. Draw arrows to show the order that things will be done.
 
Developing prototypes for new kind of pie:
brainstorming ideas
43 (42)
surveying/seeking ideas from other people
23 (24)
trying out different recipes and processes
20 (23)
considering appearance issues
20 (23)
testing taste and appearance
22 (33)
modifying/refining recipe and processes
13 (15)
deciding on new type of pie following this process
20 (29)
developing packaging
15 (27)
Planning large scale production and marketing for new pie:
planning quantities and specific ingredients
23 (29)
identifying appropriate suppliers
6 (9)
making sure that you have the required equipment and staff
31 (27)
finding out the cost of production, setting the price
16 (20)
planning advertising, marketing activities
11 (13)
Order of stickers:
all stickers in appropriate order
55 (58)
one sticker not in appropriate order
11 (12)
two stickers not in appropriate order
3 (1)
order jumbled
3 (2)
no order shown
28 (27)
Total score:
12–16
2 (3)
 
9–11
15 (28)
6–8
37 (26)
3–5
19 (16)
0–2
27 (27)
Commentary
Most of the students focused mainly on making the pie, rather than on the design, mass production and marketing elements. There was a moderate decline in the higher scores between 2000 and 2004.
 
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