Life Skills | Practical Application | Consumer Math
Students Learn the Practical Application of a Wide Range of Math Skills
Related to Making Purchases
Through the use of real-life story-problem scenarios, students get plenty of practice
with analyzing the information in word problems and applying the correct math operations to solve the problems.
Consumer Math includes four pages of colorful, realistic images, photos, and information that create a sale flyer for a particular store. The corresponding word problems were designed to develop math proficiency and to help students understand why mastery of essential math skills is so important to success in the real world.
Advertisements include sale flyers for four different stores: Winston Supply Depot, East Valley Drugstore, Nature’s Best Farmer’s Market, Hansen’s Sport Shop
Questions
Students are asked to use the four colorful pages for each sale flyer to find the information they need in order to solve the math word problems. When solving a problem, students may need to use the answer from another problem on the same page. Problems progress in difficulty as students work through the questions for each menu.
The first activity page introduces students to the contents of the sale flyer by asking comprehension questions. Answering these questions will familiarize students with the information they will need to solve the word problems
Skills
A wide range of math skills is covered in this program. Students will solve word problems that involve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as well as money, time, measurement, percents, decimals, and fractions. Some of the word problems are simple, one-step problems while others involve multiple steps that require students to really think about the problem.
Each activity page lists the math skills covered at the top of the page.
Details
Total of 90 Pages
Includes:
•16 Full-Color Sale Flyer Pages
• Activity Pages
• Step-by-Step Learning Tools