Decimal Division & Profit Real-World Math | Café Menu Budgeting Performance Task

Description

Looking for an engaging, real-world way to teach decimal division, pricing, and profit?

In this performance-style enrichment task, students become café owners, responsible for calculating the cost of ingredients, setting fair prices, and determining daily profit. Students must use decimal division, multiplication, percentages, and reasoning to make business decisions — just like in real life.

This resource is perfect for enrichment, math labs, small groups, or performance-based assessment.

📦 WHAT’S INCLUDED

✔️ 3-page real-world math enrichment task
✔️ Student role: café owner & price-setter
✔️ Tasks include:

Calculating cost per item using decimal division
Setting prices using a profit multiplier (1.5×)
Calculating daily profit from sales
Analyzing discounts (10%) and their impact on profit
✔️ Challenge extensions, including:
Adding a new menu item
Estimating profit from a new product
✔️ Clear structure for independent or group work

🧠 SKILLS & CONCEPTS PRACTICED

Decimal division
Decimal multiplication
Percent discounts
Profit & pricing strategies
Multi-step word problems
Financial reasoning & decision-making

👩‍🏫 PERFECT FOR

✔️ 6th Grade Math
✔️ Math enrichment or challenge work
✔️ Financial literacy connections
✔️ Performance tasks
✔️ Small-group problem solving
✔️ Math labs or stations
✔️ Early finishers

💡 TEACHER TIP

Have students justify their pricing decisions and reflect on how discounts impact profit. This makes an excellent cross-curricular connection to economics and real-world decision making.

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Decimal Division & Profit Real-World Math | Café Menu Budgeting Performance Task

Name: Decimal Division & Profit Real-World Math | Café Menu Budgeting Performance Task
Brand: Middle School Blueprint
SKU: 15329285
Price: 3.00 USD
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Highlights

Digital downloads

PDF

Grades

6th - 7th

Subjects

Basic Operations, Decimals, Money Math

Standards

CCSS6.NS.B.3

CCSS6.RP.A.3

CCSSMP1

Description

Looking for an engaging, real-world way to teach decimal division, pricing, and profit?

This resource is perfect for enrichment, math labs, small groups, or performance-based assessment.

📦 WHAT’S INCLUDED

✔️ 3-page real-world math enrichment task
✔️ Student role: café owner & price-setter
✔️ Tasks include:

Calculating cost per item using decimal division
Setting prices using a profit multiplier (1.5×)
Calculating daily profit from sales
Analyzing discounts (10%) and their impact on profit
✔️ Challenge extensions, including:
Adding a new menu item
Estimating profit from a new product
✔️ Clear structure for independent or group work

🧠 SKILLS & CONCEPTS PRACTICED

Decimal division
Decimal multiplication
Percent discounts
Profit & pricing strategies
Multi-step word problems
Financial reasoning & decision-making

👩‍🏫 PERFECT FOR

💡 TEACHER TIP

Have students justify their pricing decisions and reflect on how discounts impact profit. This makes an excellent cross-curricular connection to economics and real-world decision making.

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Questions & Answers

Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).

CCSS6.NS.B.3

Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.

CCSS6.RP.A.3

Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.

CCSSMP1

Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them. Mathematically proficient students start by explaining to themselves the meaning of a problem and looking for entry points to its solution. They analyze givens, constraints, relationships, and goals. They make conjectures about the form and meaning of the solution and plan a solution pathway rather than simply jumping into a solution attempt. They consider analogous problems, and try special cases and simpler forms of the original problem in order to gain insight into its solution. They monitor and evaluate their progress and change course if necessary. Older students might, depending on the context of the problem, transform algebraic expressions or change the viewing window on their graphing calculator to get the information they need. Mathematically proficient students can explain correspondences between equations, verbal descriptions, tables, and graphs or draw diagrams of important features and relationships, graph data, and search for regularity or trends. Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.