CUMULATIVE PROJECT: MATH 2 MALL
Students become entrepreneurs by creating their own store or restaurant in our Math 2 Mall! Students brainstorm ideas and products for their stores, discuss adequate pricing, learn how to price items appropriately, discover what a vendor is, and create catalogs or menus for their specialty items. After creating our Math 2 Mall, we get to go shopping! Students become problem solvers by creating their own money math problems while they visit each other’s stores.
FIELD TRIP: SAFEWAY
After creating our Math 2 Mall, we get to take our new knowledge to a real life store! Safeway gives the students a wonderful tour of their store, front and back. Students break into groups and are given a small amount of money to buy a healthy snack for a friendship mix. The groups brainstorm affordable items and have to budget their money to buy a snack. This is a great activity to review our money computation skills.