Engage your students in real-world mathematics!

Let's Go Shopping is a print-and-go collection of 21 real-world math activities that take your students on an exciting, fast-paced, journey to Valley Shopping Mall.

Everything form creating a wish list, estimating costs, researching actual costs, reviewing a shopping list, staying within a prescribed budget, viewing street maps, reading bus schedules, calculating bus fare, keeping track of the time, navigating the mall map, choosing a shopping route within the mall, selecting products, calculating discounts, calculating tax, purchasing water and lunch, checking receipts, getting the best deal possible, catching the correct bus home, reviewing expenditures, and calculating total spending in relation to budget goals, is included.

All 21 activities are curricular-aligned (see description for specific standards) and an answer key is included.

Mathematics Skills/Concepts Included:

- Estimation

- Addition of decimals

- Subtraction of decimals

- Multiplication of decimals

- Division of decimals

- Money

- Percentage Discounts

- Product Taxes

- Reading tables/charts (bus schedules)

- Reading maps

- Understanding & Calculating Time

- Geometry: Line Segments

- Comparing Decimals

- Volume of Rectangular Prisms and Cuboids

- Staying on Budget

- Savings Vs. Overspending

I really hope that you and your students enjoy our latest Let's Go series! I am really excited to share this resource with my students this school year. Let us know if you have any questions.

All the best,

- Creative Lab

Tags: Real world math, functional math, real life math skills, applied math, shopping mall math