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Assessment
Mathematics Assessment Project

Best Buy Tickets

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Everyone wants the best price when shopping — no matter what they are trying to buy. Given pricing information, pupils must solve a system of equations to determine the best option for printing tickets.
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Mathed Up!

Best Buys

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Which scenario is the better deal? Class members examine nine scenarios to determine which choice offers a better deal. Pupils decide whether they need to find unit costs or total prices to compare the two options.
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Unit Plan
Radford University

Let's Buy a Car

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Ready to buy a car? Learners research different makes and models of cars to decide on the best one to buy. They collect data on cost, fuel efficiency, safety ratings, and insurance costs, then create and analyze data displays to make...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Bargain Hunt

For Students 2nd
For this best buy worksheet, 2nd graders look at and study 3 items on 4 rows and decide which is the best buy on each row and then circle their answers.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Best Buy!!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use newspaper ads to determine the best buy on products. They enter the information into a spreadsheet and then use word processing software to complete a written analysis, complete with graphs.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Buy or Lease an Automobile

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students gather information on 3 new cars they would like to buy or lease, and use mathematical comparisons to decide whether to buy or lease the car.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Book Title: You Can’t Buy a Dinosaur with a Dime

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore the concepts of multiple digit addition and subtraction. In this addition and subtraction lesson, students read the book You Can’t Buy a Dinosaur with a Dime and then discuss methods for solving a particular math problem...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Which Car Should I Buy?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students use gas mileage of different cars to create T charts, algebraic equations, and graphs to show which gets better mileage. For this gas mileage lesson plan, students use the graph to see which car they should buy.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Multiple Meaning Words in Context

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Multiple meaning words is the focus of a lesson designed to reinforce the use of context clues. Scholars listen carefully to a variety of sentences using the words pool and cast to decide which definition best fits the context. Then,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Comparison Shopping & Buying Supplies

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare prices to determine the best buy. They earn money, by correctly completing math problems. Earnings are used to purchase items from a store using exact change.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Price is Right

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students, through various activities, explore online databases. Using the internet, students explore the distributors websites. They collect specific information on selected products. An spreadsheet with price comparisons is developed....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Soak It Up

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners role play where they assume the role of business executives who must decide which of three prototypes of paper towels would be the best buy for consumers. Students compare three products to determine the best value by using...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Savings On Best Buys

For Students 4th - 5th
In this math worksheet, students do some comparison shopping using items found in the market. They also calculate the savings earned.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

To Be Or Not To Be, Soaked

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students test the absorbency of paper towels by dropping water onto the center of each towel and then find the surface area of the stain using a transparent grid. With both pieces of data, students analyze the results of their absorbency...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Ratio and Proportion

For Students 9th - 11th
In this ratio and proportion worksheet, students read problems and solve proportion problems. They determine the best buy and identify the ratio of different sized polygons. This four-page worksheet contains 7 multi-step problems....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Internet Pizza Server - Creating Your Own Pizza

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students create their own pizza, "order" it from the Internet, and see digitized versions. They calculate the area of various size pizzas in order to do cost analysis to determine best buys.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Intermediate Activity: Energy Guide Labels

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore energy efficient appliances.  In this economics and ecology lesson, students compare and analyze EnergyGuide labels of various appliances.  Students discuss federal government involvement with consumer awareness issues. ...
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Lesson Plan
3C Skills Collaborative

Skill Twenty: Sell Successfully

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
"Selling is important in all professions because it involves synthesizing information and persuading people." Rather than using this as a lesson on how to sell a product, this resource might best be used as an inquiry into what goes into...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How E-Commerce Influences Consumer Choice

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Class members gather information on different brands of athletic shoes to determine which is the best buy. They identify a toy they would like to buy, and gather comparative information from a store, a catalog, and three websites.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Buying New Stuff

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young spenders take a look at the best ways to save and spend money. This type of financial education is lacking in schools, so implementing this lesson plan would be of great value to your students. Things like bank checking account...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Best Buys

For Students 6th - 8th
In this mathematics instructional activity, students use the information provided in each statement to solve each problem. They include all of their calculations.
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Activity
Curated OER

Selling Fuel Oil at a Loss

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
Learners are asked to advise a fuel oil dealer on a possible investment. They must use two different rates to set up an equation and solve to determine how much oil he should sell now to break even after selling the remainder the next...
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Lesson Plan
California Academy of Science

Greening Your Middle School

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Middle schoolers redesign their school to make it more energy efficient, and create a model of their design. Learners get together in groups of 5, and they take on the task of making their school more energy efficient. To do this, they...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Integrated Algebra Practice - A.M.1 #2: Rates

For Students 9th - 12th
In this rates worksheet, students solve 10 multiple choice problems. Students find the unit price of an item to determine the best buy.

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