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Calculating Sales Tax
Observe and demonstrate how to calculate state sales taxes. Learners create a sales tax chart by calculating the sales tax amount and tax inclusive retail price for school store items, then calculate the subtotals, sales tax amounts, and...
Virginia Department of Education
Sales Tax and Tip
Don't forget to tip your server. Future consumers learn how to calculate sales taxes and tips. Pairs use actual restaurant menus to create an order and determine the total bill, including taxes and tips.
Balanced Assessment
Sales Tax Table
Sales tax rates vary; do the math to find the right rate! Pupils use before tax amounts and after tax amounts to determine the tax rate. Rounding makes the task challenging.
Federal Reserve Bank
Income Taxes
Most adults dread April 15 — tax day! Tax preparation can be intimidating even for adults. Build confidence by leading individuals through the process and then give them a scenario to practice. The exercise uses tax vocabulary to give...
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Completing Simple Tax Forms
Twelfth graders practice filling out IRS 1040 EZ forms. They discuss various ways people pay taxes. They assess the importance of W-2 forms and apply skills using the IRS tax table to compute how much money is owed or returned.
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Reteach: Sales Tax and Discounts
In this sales tax worksheet, 6th graders read steps to finding sales prices, sale tax amounts, and total cost of sale items. They solve twelve problems using those steps.
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Sales Tax and Discounts
Learners explore the concept of sales tax and discounts. In this sales tax and discounts instructional activity, students pretend to gamble in groups to win fake money. Learners must tax their winnings. Students collect receipts....
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Sales Tax
Learners explore the concept of sales tax. In this sales tax instructional activity, students work in groups to spend $500. Learners calculate the discount and sales tax on each item. Students buy between 5 to 10 items.
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Discount and Sales Tax
In this Algebra I learning exercise, students work with a family member to find the percent of discount and sales tax of three items that are on sale. The twopage learning exercise contains fourquestions. Answers are not included.
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Finding Sales Tax
Seventh graders investigate sales tax. Following a teacher demonstration, they find sales tax and the total cost of items. In groups, classmates choose items from a menu that they would like to purchase. Each student figures the sales...
Visa
Financial Forces: Understanding Taxes and Inflation
Take the opportunity to offer your young adults some important financial wisdom on the way taxes and inflation will affect their lives in the future. Through discussion and review of different real-world scenarios provided in this...
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Sales Spreadsheet
Learners use Excel spreadsheets to organize purchases, discounts, sales prices, and sales tax. Students follow step by step instructions and enter formulas as well as use the auto sum feature to calculate required calculations.
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Taxing Taxes
Students complete math word problems. In this taxes instructional activity, students discuss taxes and why they are necessary. Students research the history of taxes, write a summary of their findings, determine the sales tax in their...
Illustrative Mathematics
Buying a Car
Teenagers love to think about driving and buying their first car. The intent of this resource is to create an equation for the list price of a car and add the appropriate state tax. Once your teens understand the calculation, ask them to...
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Jambalaya's Restaurant
Young scholars use a menu and recipes to work on adding, subtracting, and percentages. They are given they weekly circulators, advertisements, or actual products and students practice figuring out sales tax. Young scholars figure slaes...
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Leveled Problem Solving Discounts, Markups, Tips, and Sales Tax
In this discounts and sales tax instructional activity, students problem solve and work with discounts, markups, tips, and sales tax by completing the six word problems.
Illustrative Mathematics
Kendall's Vase - Tax
Practice sales tax when using the activity with three solution choices. Learners can use a percent table, benchmark percent, or solve by calculating. Solutions don't show how to multiply by the decimal, but method can be added in. Great...
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Shopping Spree
Young scholars calculate discounts, sale price, and sale tax. In this consumer math lesson, students visit mock stores which have items for sale. Young scholars calculate the final prices of items.
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Taxes, Tips, and Salaries
In this taxes, tips and salaries worksheet, students read story problems and determine the sales price, percent of change, amount of tax, and final price. This four-page worksheet contains 8 multi-step prolems. Answers are provided on...
CK-12 Foundation
Prices Involving Sales Tax: Proper Tipping
A five-question interactive challenges mathematicians to find a correct tip and total amount using percents five, 12, and 18. A tool with moveable pieces assists participants in locating answers. Types of questions include...
Scholastic
Study Jams! Percents
Sam's mom is a bowling woman and her birthday is around the corner. Can Sam afford the shirt in the store window for her? Mia helps him solve a multi-step percent problem to figure it out!
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Taxes and Sales
Collaborative discussions around this retail store problem will be taxing. Calculating discount and tax and the order of the operations are used to motivate an opportunity for learners to make a convincing argument using algebraic...
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Go Figure! Using Percents in the Real World
Sixth graders solve sales tax problems. In this solving sales tax problems lesson, 6th graders find the sales tax on various items. Students are given a list of expenses that a family spent on vacation before taxes. Students determine...
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What Does Percent Have to Do With It?
Fourth graders go shopping for a real life experience involving percent. They explore the concepts of sales tax and discount prices.
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