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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Calculating Sales Tax

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Virginia Department of Education

Sales Tax and Tip

For Teachers 7th Standards
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.
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Balanced Assessment

Sales Tax Table

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
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.
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Federal Reserve Bank

Income Taxes

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Completing Simple Tax Forms

For Teachers 12th
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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Worksheet
Curated OER

Reteach: Sales Tax and Discounts

For Students 6th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sales Tax and Discounts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of sales tax and discounts. For this sales tax and discounts lesson, students pretend to gamble in groups to win fake money. Students must tax their winnings. Students collect receipts. Students discuss the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sales Tax

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of sales tax. In this sales tax lesson, students work in groups to spend $500. Students calculate the discount and sales tax on each item. Students buy between 5 to 10 items.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Discount and Sales Tax

For Students 8th - 9th
In this Algebra I worksheet, students work with a family member to find the percent of discount and sales tax of three items that are on sale. The twopage worksheet contains fourquestions. Answers are not included.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Calculate Percentages

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Sixth and seventh graders study the concept of finding the percent of a number. They calculate the percent of any given number. Pupils describe ways to use calculating percents in their daily life, and change percents into decimals,...
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Lesson Plan
Visa

Financial Forces: Understanding Taxes and Inflation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sales Spreadsheet

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students 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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Worksheet
Curated OER

Rounding Decimal Numbers: Graphing Calculator Activity

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math instructional activity, students use graphing calculators to complete a total of three problems with rounding decimal numbers. Diagrams are included in student instructions.
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PPT
Curated OER

Discount and Sales Price

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Buying a Car

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
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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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Tax and Tip

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Finding out how to calculate tax and tip is a valuable skill that all young adults should be able to do without a calculator. Learners are given a bill and asked to calculate the tax, tip, and total amount. Calculations can be exact or...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Kendall's Vase - Tax

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shopping Spree

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students calculate discounts, sale price, and sale tax. In this consumer math lesson, students visit mock stores which have items for sale. Students calculate the final prices of items.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Taxes and Sales

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Go Figure! Using Percents in the Real World

For Teachers 6th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Computing Costs

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders calculate the out-of-pocket money needed to purchase a discounted item taxed at a certain percentage of sales tax.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Does Percent Have to Do With It?

For Teachers 4th
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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Let's Go Shopping with $500

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use a worksheet to budget a five-hundred dollar shopping spree. They select goods to purchase, figure totals and then calculate discounts and sales tax. They compare results to determine who purchased the most for his or...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Discount, Sales Price, and Tax

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders calculate discount, sales price, and sales tax. They are given various problems to work out and even have to figure how much they would make if they were working on commission as well. Students have to figure out which...