It's On Sale!

Students explore sale items.  In this money and percent math lesson, students work in groups to locate food ads in the newspaper.  Students identify sales and calculate final prices using percentage discounts.  Students complete a math...

In this calculating sales tax and discounts instructional activity, students solve 5 word problems where they determine the total price of an item based on sales tax rates in three different states.

In this prescription drug worksheet, students answer short answer questions and create graphs on the sales of prescription drugs over a five year span. Students complete six questions.

In this consumer math worksheet, students read about sale prices, and how items are marked up or marked down. They underline the correct word or phrase to match each picture. They choose from phrases such as marked up, on sale,...

For this real-world example, algebra learners start to get a sense of how to represent the relationship between two variables in different ways. They start by looking at a partial table of values that define a linear relationship. They...

In this ELL, sales tax and discounts worksheet, students answer 6 fill in the blank questions based on a picture where they calculate the discount price or the total price of an item with sales tax. A detailed example and explanation is...

One of the most practical ways to teach about percentages is to use the real-life example of "sale" or "discount" pricing. This presentation poses many of these type of problems for young mathematicians who are trying to master the...

Learners make good decisions about making purchases of items on sale and explain how percentages effect cost.

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!

Students plan a meal, write down prices for ingredients, and search for coupons to save money. In this grocery ads lesson plan, students go to the store and buy the ingredients to their meal and compare prices for things that were on...