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The Internet Pizza Server - Pizza Simulation
Students simulate going to a pizza restaurant, ordering a pizza, and determining whether a small, medium, large, or family size pizza is a "better-buy." Students calculate the price/per/topping and determine whether this price is "fair"
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What's the Price?
Fourth graders learn about price and comparative shopping. In this price and comparative shopping activity, 4th graders read Amy Axelrod's, Pigs Go To Market: Fun with Math and Shopping. They use the book to investigate the meaning of...
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Test Your Speaking And Listening Skills: A Fair Price?
In this consumer awareness worksheet, students look at a shopping list and write what is a fair price for each item and how much is the maximum they would be willing to pay. Kids discuss their lists and may visit stores to see if their...
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Positioning Your Firm
In this vocational worksheet, students write position statements about products they could market including a description of the niches their firms could fill.
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Pricing Strategies
Students examine the principles companies use to price their problems. They discover the difference between cost based and market based pricing. They identify other factors that go into pricing decisions.
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Year Book Page Special Shape Collage
Young scholars design a collage of pictures for a yearbook that make a shape. They determine the area of the shape and the price of putting the collage in the yearbook.
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Running a School Bakery
Students explore marketing concepts while producing food items to sell.
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Wacky Water World
Eighth graders calculate a system of equations to find the best ticket price for a ticket at a water park. They explain how the equations helped them make their decision on the best price.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Demand, Supply, and Markets
This site discusses in great detail the differences between demand, supply, and markets. Useful economic terminology is identified in bold.
Other
South Western Learning: Econ News: Price Ceilings and Price Floors
Offers a summary of when government intervention and market-determined prices are necessary to stabilize the economy. Includes an interactive quiz at the end.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Dividing to Find the Unit Price
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice using division to find the unit price.
Other
Business plans.org: Marketing Plan
This article discusses the information necessary to write a marketing plan. The concepts discussed include: generic strategies and strategies for pricing, distribution, promotion, advertising, and market segmentation.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Competition Pizza
A lesson that teaches about competition in the marketplace that uses student-gathered information about businesses where they live. Includes student activities and links to national standards in economics and personal finance.