Turn your classroom into a spooky boardroom with this 10-page, black-and-white worksheet pack where students become entrepreneurs pitching their own Halloween potion businesses! This set combines real-world financial literacy, multiplication/division with decimals, percent, graphing, and multi-step word problems — all wrapped in a fun “Shark Tank”–style scenario. Each page includes a mini-story prompt, themed black-and-white illustration, and 10 rigorous questions. The last worksheet is a capstone challenge where students combine all skills to present their final pitch.

What’s Included:

• Worksheet 1: Potion Profit Basics
  Skills: Subtraction with decimals, total cost, profit, average price
  Task: Calculate individual and total profits, find average selling price, and identify smallest profit margin
  
• Worksheet 2: Haunted Factory Costs
  Skills: Multi-step addition, multiplication with decimals, unit rate
  Task: Compute total production cost, cost per potion, and decide which production plan is cheapest
  
• Worksheet 3: Break-Even Cauldron
  Skills: Division, ratios, solving for unknowns
  Task: Determine break-even points and calculate how many potions must be sold to cover fixed costs
  
• Worksheet 4: Potion Sales Bar Graph
  Skills: Data representation, graph interpretation, comparison
  Task: Complete a bar graph with given sales data, answer questions about highest and lowest sales, and compare quantities
  
• Worksheet 5: Creepy Coupons & Discounts
  Skills: Percent discount, multiplication, subtraction
  Task: Apply percent discounts, calculate final prices, and decide which customers save the most
  
• Worksheet 6: Haunted Price Tags
  Skills: Rounding, markup percentage, comparing pricing strategies
  Task: Round potion prices to nearest dollar, calculate price markups, and determine best pricing strategy for profit
  
• Worksheet 7: Potion Profit Percentages
  Skills: Percent of a number, fractions, decimals
  Task: Find profit as a percent of selling price, express as fraction/decimal, and illustrate with pie charts
  
• Worksheet 8: Spooky Supply & Demand
  Skills: Table analysis, reasoning, basic algebra
  Task: Analyze supply/demand chart to pick best price point, justify decision, and predict changes if demand shifts
  
• Worksheet 9: Pitch Presentation Math
  Skills: Multi-step word problems, data interpretation, operations with decimals
  Task: Prepare a “pitch deck” by solving bundled problems on profit, expenses, and percent change
  
• Worksheet 10: Final Pitch Challenge
  Skills: Integrated review of profit, percentages, graphing, word problems
  Task: Create a complete business case including total cost, break-even analysis, percent profit, and a mini bar graph
  

How It Helps Students:

• Builds financial literacy through hands-on, applied math
  
• Encourages entrepreneurial thinking and problem solving
  
• Integrates multiple domains (operations, decimals, percent, graphing) in one coherent project
  

How It Helps Teachers:

• Print-and-go — no prep required
  
• Ideal for October math centers, group work, or enrichment projects
  
• Cross-curricular tie-in for math + economics + creative writing
  

Solves Key Pain Points:

• Engages students with a unique, story-based scenario that feels like a real-world business pitch
  
• Provides both computation practice and higher-order reasoning tasks
  
• Includes a mix of straightforward and challenge problems for differentiation
  

This resource includes typographically styled fractions and exponents, along with auto-formatted elements, designed to expose students to a variety of visual representations. By incorporating both digital and traditional formats, students encounter mathematical expressions in ways they may not often see in standard textbooks. This approach enhances flexible thinking and supports adaptation to various digital tools, platforms, and real-world scenarios. It encourages a deeper conceptual understanding and strengthens students’ confidence with diverse mathematical notations.

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