Shopping Spree Percent Applications Project

Product Description

In this differentiated project, students go on a shopping spree at the store of their choice. The catch is they must stick to their budget while calculating discounts, sales tax, and the final total.

This is a fun way for 7th or 8th grade students to put their knowledge to work in a way that gives them choice & real-life practice.

Math Skills Needed For This Project:

• Calculating percent of a number to find discount
• Finding the new price of each item after the discount
• Calculating percent of a number to find sales tax
• Decimal addition to find the total amount of money spent

(Optional: provide calculators to help students who may get bogged down in lots of computation. They will still need to demonstrate an understanding of percent, discount, and tax, but won’t be slowed down by adding lots of prices together.)

Included in the download: Instructions/Tips for Teachers; What’s the Total Cost? Worksheet (to review operations with decimals); Let’s Save Some Money! Worksheet (to review calculating discounts & total price in preparation for the project); 3 projects (low, medium, high challenge levels) with student recording pages; grading rubric with assigned tasks/points values; blank grading rubric, allowing you to create your own criteria/point values; and answer key for the preliminary review worksheets.