Introduction
1. Introduction
How wonderful is December? Christmas is coming, Santa is coming, Gifts are coming, so much happiness is coming. If your grandparents give you $15, how would you spend it? How do you create a shopping list for your Christmas gifts?
Every year, you get a lot of gifts from your grandparents. But this year is different, your grandpa and grandma are already out of town in the beginning of December. They decide to send you $15 cash, so you can buy any thing you want for your Christmas gifts. However, your grandparents have some requirements for your spending.
Please follow the Activity by looking at the pages in the following order:
Task
Process
Evaluation
Conclusion
Task
2. Task
Your grandparents have some requirements for your Christmas gift shopping. The following are the requirements.
- To create a Christmas gift shopping list
- To list at least 3 different items
- To spend all $15, if you can
On the note, your grandparents want you create a shopping list and report to your parents by the end of the week. You will need to keep track of your spending and write down everything you want to purchase as well as the purchase price. If you don’t follow the instructions from the note to create the shopping list, your parents won’t bring you to the stores to purchase the gifts you want. Also, your grandparents mention that if you create the list in Chinese, you will get an extra $5 dollars for your shopping list.
Process
3. Process
To fulfill your grandparents' requirements, you will need to create a shopping list by writing down 3 or more items’ names and prices on a piece of paper. Remember, you only have $15 (or $20 for a Chinese shopping list) to spend and you cannot over spend. However, your grandparents ask that you try to spend it all. You need to keep your shopping list organized. Each time you write down an item, you must write down the total you had before, the cost of the item you want to purchase, and the new total of how much money left.
The following is an example of shopping list in both English and Chinese (You don't have to follow the format to create you shopping list):
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I have $15. I want to buy... toy $10 notebook $3 cookies $2 |
I have ----------------------$15toy---------------------------$10How much money left?-----$ 5I have -----------------------$5Notebook--------------------$3How much money left?-----$2I have -----------------------$2cookies-----------------------$2How much money left?------$0 |
我有 $20 块钱。 我要买。。。 玩具 $10 本子 $3 饼干 $2 糖果(candy) $3 铅笔(pencil) $2 |
我有-------------------$ 20 玩具--------------------$10 剩下多少钱？-----------$10 我有---------------------$10 本子----------------------$3 剩下多少钱？-------------$7 我有---------------------$7 饼干---------------------$2 剩下多少钱？------------$5 我有--------------------$ 5 糖果---------------------$3 剩下多少钱？------------$2 我有--------------------$ 2 铅笔---------------------$2 剩下多少钱？------------$0 |
You may use the following websites to look at items you may want. Remember, this shopping list doesn’t count the Tax or the decimal point from the price. For example, if you see the price is $2.99, it will be $2. If you want to create the list in Chinese and you don't know how to write the items' names in Chinese, you can draw the items. Wal-Mart Toy's R us Utah-Idaho Supply
Evaluation
4. Evaluation
You will be scored depending on the criteria below.
The First Grade Math
The Christmas Shopping List Rubric
| Excellent | Good |
Needs improvement |
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| The list well organized | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| List at least 3 items | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Representation of math concepts on the list |
3 | 2 | 1 |
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Computations & Solutions are complete and correct |
3 | 2 | 1 |
Conclusion
5. Conclusion
You have one week to finish this assignment. After you complete your Christmas gift shopping list, double check your work using a different addition or subtraction strategy for each problem. Please remember to write down your name and hand-in your work (staple the pages together if you need to) to the "Math Assignments" bin.
Teacher Page
Teacher Page
This assignment has been developed for the first grade Chinese Immersion classroom in the completion of the addiiton and subtraction unit. This assignment matches up with the first grade math and social study core standards.
Math Standards
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
1.OA.A Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
1.
Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
1.OA.B Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
3.
Apply properties of operations as strategies to add and subtract.
1.OA.D Work with addition and subtraction equations.
Social Study Standards
Standard 4
(Financial Literacy): Students will describe the economic choices people make to meet their basic economic needs.
Objective 2
Recognize that people need to make choices to meet their needs.