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Consumer Math

Consumer Math. Monica Campagna, Nicole DiBlasio, & Emily Fox. Introduction. LET'S HAVE A CAKE-OFF! You have to prepare a strawberry shortcake for the Strawberry Festival. Students will be divided into groups of 3 and will be assigned a grocery store in which to buy their ingredients. .

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Consumer Math

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  1. Consumer Math Monica Campagna, Nicole DiBlasio, & Emily Fox

  2. Introduction LET'S HAVE A CAKE-OFF! You have to prepare a strawberry shortcake for the Strawberry Festival. Students will be divided into groups of 3 and will be assigned a grocery store in which to buy their ingredients.

  3. Task Lesson Objectives - find the unit price for products - find percent savings Recipe for strawberry shortcake: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/chic-easy/strawberry-shortcake-recipe/index.html

  4. Process • You will be placed into groups of three and will be assigned a store to purchase your ingredients • Your objective will be to find and buy the cheapest ingredients in your store* • Find the unit price of each ingredient used in the strawberry shortcake recipe on the Food Network website • Total the cost of all the ingredients and total the cost of just the ingredients needed to make one cake with the help of the provided conversion chart *For extra credit, if any of your items are on sale find the percent decrease and the amount saved

  5. Group Assignments Group 1 - Stop and Shop Group 2 - Shop Rite Group 3 - Pathmark Group 4 - Waldbaums Group 5 - The Food Emporium Group 6 - Shop Rite Group 7 - Pathmark Group 8 - Waldbaums Group 9 - Stop and Shop Group 10 - The Food Emporium Group 1 - http://www.stopandshop.com/ Group 2 - http://www.shoprite.com/ Group 3 -http://pathmark.apsupermarket.com/ Group 4 - http://waldbaums.inserts2online.com/customer_Frame.jsp?drpStoreID=223&showFlash=false Group 5 - http://shop.mywebgrocer.com/shop.aspx?strid=C8613810&catL0=570&catL1=-1&catL2=-1&catL3=-1&HasProducts=0 Group 6 - http://www.shoprite.com/ Group 7 -http://pathmark.apsupermarket.com/ Group 8 -http://waldbaums.inserts2online.com/customer_Frame.jsp?drpStoreID=223&showFlash=false Group 9 - http://www.stopandshop.com/ Group 10 -http://shop.mywebgrocer.com/shop.aspx?strid=C8613810&catL0=570&catL1=-1&catL2=-1&catL3=-1&HasProducts=0

  6. Conversion Chart

  7. Conclusion • Which team was able to make the cheapest cake? • Based on the unit price, what were your cheapest and most expensive items? • What are some advantages to finding the unit price?

  8. Evaluation

  9. Teacher Page Common Core State Standard • 6.RP.2 - understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems • 7.RP.1 - analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems

  10. About the Authors Monica Campagna is a bubbly Italian who enjoys food, math and Michael Buble Nicole DiBlasio likes to engage in Harry Potter, food, and Disney related activities Emily Fox is an intelligent aspiring math teacher who enjoys sketching, going to Broadway plays and listening to alternative rock in her spare time

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