Transform your math block with this real-world consumer math project where students design their own room while applying fractions, decimals, percents, budgeting, discounts, and sales tax. Perfect for Grades 6–8, this hands-on activity blends financial literacy, applied design, and creative problem-solving.

Students use a curated shopping catalogue to build a dream room, calculate the cost of items, apply percent-off discounts, convert between fractions/decimals/percents, add tax, and stay within a realistic budget. This project supports BC curriculum outcomes and aligns with ADST, financial literacy foundations, and proportional reasoning.

This resource is ideal for Black Friday math lessons, holiday budgeting, Christmas shopping math, or any time of year as an engaging fractions-decimals-percents project or consumer math unit. It also works well for independent practice, math centres, enrichment, early finishers, or multi-day project-based learning.

What’s Included

• 14-page student booklet with fraction/decimal/percent conversions, budgeting templates, shopping catalogue, discount pages, tax pages, and final design layout
  
• Completed exemplar to guide students and support teacher modelling
  
• Editable rubric
  
• Rubric aligned to the BC proficiency scale
  
• BC curriculum connections (Math & ADST, Grades 6–8)
  
• Extra sales tax pages (customizable for your local area)
  
• Differentiation tips and extension ideas
  
• High-engagement, real-world math task students love
  

Skills Reinforced

• Fractions, decimals, and percents
  
• Percent off discounts & sales tax
  
• Budgeting and financial literacy
  
• Consumer math problem-solving
  
• Visual/spatial design thinking
  
• Mathematical reasoning & justification
  
• Real-world application of proportional thinking
  

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