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Take Math Shopping!
Percents, estimation, and comparative analysis become more understandable when they are used in-context at the grocery store.
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Grocery Store
Students explore food and grocery stores. In this lesson on foods, students are introduced to the food pyramid and healthy eating through a variety of center activities. Students have to opportunity to role-play working at a grocery store.
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Grocery Shopping
Using an adaptive shopping list, special needs students take a trip to the grocery store. Instead of words, their list contains pictures of the items they need to find and purchase at the store. They run through several practice and...
Perkins School for the Blind
Grocery Shopping
Grab those reusable bags, it's time to go shopping! Intended to foster independent living skills in learners with visual impairments, the lesson covers several topics related to grocery shopping. They start by planning a meal, reading...
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Grocery Store Math
In this math worksheet, students write down an estimated price of five grocery store items. Then, students find the actual price and calculate the difference.
Practical Money Skills
Shopping Wisely
Work on making good shopping choices with a fun economics project. Kids analyze the differences between brand names and generic products, bigger and smaller units for purchase, and different places they can shop for different items.
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"Grocery Store"
Students purchase grocery items from the classroom grocery store using appropriate play coins and bills. Students define various economic terms. Students comprehend the concept of a medium for exchange.
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The Price Is Right - Grocery Store Prices
Eighth graders use the unit price to compare which local grocery store has the best prices. Assign students to work with a partner and a role. One person is the recorder and the other is the mathematician.
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Random Sampling
Sample pennies to gain an understanding of their ages. The 16th installment of a 25-part series requires groups to collect samples from a jar of pennies. Pupils compare the distribution of their samples with the distribution of the...
Visa
Making Spending Decisions
By role playing real-world experiences, such as purchasing snacks and grocery/toy store shopping, your youngsters will begin to develop an understanding of how to make decisions and choose between alternatives. This is the first...
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Shopping the Sunday Circular
Pupils demonstrate an understanding of price-per-unit mathematics. In this computation activity, learners accurately figure the unit price of grocery items. They create a chart and record the item, the price, the size and the cost per item.
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Monthly Cost of Living - Food
Students determine how much they would need to feed a family for a month. They plan meals and use Internet grocery stores to find the cost of individual food items. They brainstorm in small groups to come up with 1 weeks worth of menus.
Council for Economic Education
Sand Art Brownies
Which is better, Coke or Pepsi? Pupils analyze the concept of substitute goods as they investigate the choice to purchase alternate products for better prices. Fun and practical, the engaging shopping exercise helps savvy scholars get...
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Using Counting-on Strategy for Purchasing
Intended for learners with autism and developmental disabilities, this lesson uses the strategy of counting-on to enhance independent shopping skills. Learners will practice counting on to the next dollar value in order to purchase items...
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Buying in Bulk
Students investigate buying purchases in bulk. For this buying in bulk lesson, students consider ways to cut costs and reduce waste in landfills by making bulk purchases.
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Shopping
Students demonstrate how to count money through a simulated shopping experience. In this consumer math instructional activity, students read the book Just Shopping With Mom and count play money to illustrate how much the items in the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Price per Pound and Pounds per Dollar
Help learners understand the concept of unit rate as it is applied to buying beans at a grocery store. The objective is to determine the unit rate in two ways, and then apply each ratio to an additional problem. The attached commentary...
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Let's Go Consumer Shopping
Second graders rotate through various centers designed to practice consumer math skills. They complete a task card at stations simulating consumer transactions that would take place at toy store, grocery store, restaurant or school store.
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Shopping Around
Third graders select a recipe and compare prices for ingredients at two different stores. They select the best place to buy the ingredients and answer questions about the process. They include their data on a spreadsheet related to their...
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Grocery Shopping and Budgeting
Ninth graders establish a food budget based on individual needs and resources. They evaluate grocery stores and establish guidelines for purchasing specific foods.
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Grocery Races
Fifth graders apply their knowledge of math in a grocery shopping trip. In this math lesson, 5th graders use addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to help them with their shopping. The teacher sets up a mock supermarket in...
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The Multiplication Store
Students discuss where they go grocery shopping, if they help shop, and what they like to get at the store. They understand that multiplication facts help if they were to get more than one of a particular item.
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Budgeting for the Future
Eighth graders determine the net amount of an income for a fictional job. They must determine their net worth minus standard deductions. Students must then determine their monthly budget including, groceries, credit, and rent.
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Special Snack
Students explore grocery store circulars to choose items for a snack. In this snack math lesson, students must plan a class snack for $20.00. Students create a list estimating costs. Students view lists and choose one for...