Introduction
Do you want to have a lot of money when you grow up? In order to do so you need to know how to spend your money in a smart way and how to not spend it.
Task
Now for your task you will need to:
Play online simulator to learn to budget
Use percents to calculate taxt, tips and discounts
Create a pie chart based on your data
Create a video or a one page essay on what you have learned.
Process
Task 1
Visit the following website so you can learn about money and smart spending
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/games/mad_money_flash.html
Task 2
Search up two of your favorite restaurants and find an online menu with prices after you do so create a bill for you and your familly to go out to eat. You must include prices for everyone in your families meals, drinks, and desserts. You must then figure out how much task would be accumulated on your bill. The tax rate to use is 8.4%. Your family wants to use a 20% tip at the end of the night so add this in to the total as well. Do this for both of your favorite restaurants and then compare and contrast the total amount your family would spend at each restaurant. Figure out which coupon would be better at each restaurant, $5 off your bill or 20% off your bill. discounts are taken off the total before tax and tip are added.
Task 3
visit https://www.meta-chart.com/pie to craete two pie charts with the following:with one slice representing drinks, one representing meals, one representing desserts, one representing tax, and one representing tip.
Task 4
Use everything you have learn a create a video or write a one page essay on how to spend money and save money
Evaluation
Conclusion
In today's lesson you learned how to understand smart spending by using coupons and savings applying tax and discounts to check and making a pie charts.
Now do you think you can chose carefully if you want to go out to eat or not ?
Credits
PBS Kids. "Mad Money." Http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/games/mad_money_flash.html. Pbs Kids, n.d. Web. 16 May 2016.
Calculator, Meta. "Create a Pie Chart." Https://www.meta-chart.com/pie. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 May 2016.
4teachers. "Create a New Rubric." Create a New Rubric. 4teachers.org, 2000-2008. Web. 16 May 2016
Teacher Page
8th grade Math
Erwin Miranda
WCHS
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