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Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Unit Price
Learn what unit pricing is and try comparing unit prices in the accompanying game.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Best Deal
Students will learn how to determine 'price per unit' to help make decisions when comparing products.
Curated OER
The Motivation for International Trade
This article discusses how differing prices of various goods in two nations will motivate these nations to trade with each other until the prices of these goods become equal.
Curated OER
The Motivation for International Trade
This article discusses how differing prices of various goods in two nations will motivate these nations to trade with each other until the prices of these goods become equal.
Curated OER
The Motivation for International Trade
This article discusses how differing prices of various goods in two nations will motivate these nations to trade with each other until the prices of these goods become equal.
Curated OER
The Motivation for International Trade
This article discusses how differing prices of various goods in two nations will motivate these nations to trade with each other until the prices of these goods become equal.
Other
Global Grocery List Project: Homepage
At this site from the Global Grocery List Project, students collect data on the prices of common grocery items and submit their findings. They can then compare the data they collected to data from students around the world. There are...
Rice University
Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fun and Sun Rent a Car
A wide range of math skills is incorporated into a lesson that involves planning a family's vacation to Florida. Travel expenses are gathered and compared, graphed, and analyzed in hopes of finding the best prices. There are extension...
Savvas Learning
Pearson Education: National Brands Versus Private Labels and Generics
This article compares national brands to generic brands, with respect to prices, customer satisfaction, and product differentiation.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Dvd Profits, Variation 1
Eighth graders examine the costs of producing DVDs, taking into account the cost of building a factory. They need to look at units costs for DVDs, fixed prices, and building costs. They are asked to compare the costs for producing them...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.ee Peaches and Plums
For this task, 8th graders are shown graphs of two linear functions and are asked to compare the costs per pound of two fruits without knowing their actual prices. To do this, they need to think about slope and unit rates. Aligns with...
PBS
Pbs: The Lowdown: Percents Combined: Proportional Relationships With Multistep Ratio and Percent Problems
Learn how to calculate sale price when combining two "percent-off" discounts in this video from KQED. In the accompanying classroom activity, students develop and share a variety of strategies, including modeling with a 10 x 10 grid to...
Volunteer Voices
Volunteer Voices: What Was on the Menu?
The learner will collect and read menus from contemporary and historic sources list and compare similarities between collected menus. Students will identify differences between menus including foods offered, descriptions and prices...