Engage your middle school students with these real world holiday math activities perfect for Black Friday, Thanksgiving week, or anytime throughout the Christmas holiday shopping season. This set of seven activities can be used as a packet, math stations, or mini project and includes the use of important skills including solving equations, finding percentages, word problems, and more.

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⭐️ The following seven activities included are:

• Is the Price Right? Matching Activity: Students will use the provided items people have on their list along with prices. They will work together to try to correctly match the item to its' sale price.
• What's the Discount?: In this activity, your students will either use the provided ad sheet or search through store ads to calculate the percent decrease. Then they will answer questions based on the deals they found.
• The Math Behind Holiday Shopping: Your students will solve a variety of math problems (including solving equations and calculating percentages) that will reveal a holiday shopping fun statistic.
• Best Deals Scavenger Hunt: Looking for the best deals during the gift-giving season is important for the majority of shoppers! In this activity, your students will look for a list of items between two stores of their choice. They will determine which store has the best prices and answer reflection questions based on their findings.
• Holiday Shopping Word Problems: Students will solve different word problems related to the holiday shopping season.
• Holiday Shopping-Finding the Sale Price/Discount: Students will use the given information to calculate the sale price or percent discount of items.
• Holiday Shopping with a Budget: Students will follow a budget to create a shopping plan for those on their list.

There are a variety of ways you can incorporate these activities into your classroom including:

• Set up as Math Stations.
• Assign all activities as a mini-project or packet.
• Give as enrichment or for early finishers.
• Use one activity per week up until winter break.
• Use with a substitute teacher or shortened class.

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"Used this with my students on the last day before break. It was engaging enough to pull their attention from the upcoming break :) The resource requires them to think about items that they really do want but adds calculations and great real world math..."

You may also be interested in some of my other real world math activities:

• Real World Math: Investigating Jobs, Salaries and Budgets
• Thanksgiving Math Project
• The Math Behind Times Square New Years Eve Celebration
• Mathematician Trading Card Project

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