Next time you need to repave your patio, have your scholars do all the math. They first calculate and answer questions using the area of patio blocks. Next, they determine the cheapest block to use to pave the patio.

Which option provides the best payout? Pupils predict which lottery prize to take. They devise a method to calculate which prize would likely provide the greatest monetary value.

A boss who can't do math? Oh, no! Young entrepreneurs use linear and exponential models to determine which discount will yield the most profit on ticket sales.

Between 2000 and 2017, the cost of potatoes more than doubled in the United States. Pupils use the total cost of two types of potatoes to solve for the number of pounds of each type of potato. Then, they determine if the kitchen scale...

Can you determine the exact volume of a bottle based on the relative volume of other bottles? A series of four videos shows someone pouring fluid into bottles. Scholars must set up a system of equations to determine how much each bottle...

Keep playing with those old toy cars! Pupils estimate the number of toy cars in an art installation. The only information they receive is a picture showing the toy cars arranged in concentric rings and the diameter of the overall...

Make sure to get enough for everyone. The three-part assessment task requires scholars to calculate with decimals. Learners determine the cost of school supplies and whether the teachers have ordered enough. The assessment is the sixth...

Knock a chip off the cookie. Learners purchase a property to mine and mining tools. Pupils use their tools to mine chocolate chips out of a cookie for 5 minutes and return cookie fragments to its original site. After the time is over,...

Future car owners use geometric sums to calculate payments for a car loan in the 31st installment of a 35-part module. These same concepts provide the basis for calculating annuity payments.

There's no place like home. Future home owners investigate the cost of buying a house in the 33rd installment of a 35-part module. They come to realize that the calculations are simply a variation of previous formulas involving car loans...

Remodeling projects require more than just a good design — they involve complex fractions, too. To determine whether a tiling project will fit within a given budget pupils calculate the square footage to determine the number of...

Challenge the class to determine whether two quantities are proportional. The second instructional activity in a unit of 22 has class members decide if two quantities have a proportional relationship. If a proportional relationship...

Students experience demand-pull inflation while gaining insight into three major sources of the '''too many dollars" which chase after the "too few goods and services. Students participate in an auction to experience inflation firsthand.

For this counting coins worksheet, students examine 4 prices under $1 and identify 2 different coin combinations that equal each the prices.

Students read the book Sam I Am and complete math calculations on the prices of ingredients that Sam did not want to eat. In this math calculations lesson plan, students list the items Sam would not eat into a computer program and...

In this math activity, student use problem solving skills to plan and design a futuristic theme park on a budget. Students draw the park on graph paper and set prices for admission and budget for all ongoing costs. This page is from the...

In this ratio, proportion and percent worksheet, students solve problems involving ratios and proportions. They identify the percent of increase and decrease, solve ratio problems with proportions, and find sale prices. This two-page...

In this pence and estimation on line activity, students change the price of five toys to pence, estimate the price of four toys by rounding the prices to the nearest 10p and utilize estimation in eight number problems. Students check...

In this Roman numerals instructional activity, students write 10 numbers shown in expanded notation using Roman numerals. Students write prices of 6 items (in pence) by converting Roman numerals to Arabic. Students also compare sets of...

In this counting coins worksheet, students cut and paste the correct coins necessary to purchase each of the 5 common household items. All prices are under a dollar.

In this multi-step problem solving worksheet, students analyze a chart that shows musical instruments and their prices. After reading the instructions and examples provided, students solve two multi-step problems.

In this consumer math activity, students analyze the prices on 4 food items in a store. Students solve 7 word problems with the information.

In this money activity, 4th graders read, study and analyze a table on 4 different airlines and their prices of tickets in order to answer 2 word problems involving subtraction and multiplication.

In this economics worksheet, students read a brief article regarding the price elasticity of demand and determine whether 6 items have prices that are elastic or inelastic and explain the reasons for each answer.