Plan a Birthday Party PBL Math Task
Brittany McNish
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Grade Levels
2nd - 4th
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSS3.MD.A.1
CCSS3.NBT.A.2
CCSS3.NBT.A.3
CCSS3.OA.C.7
CCSS3.OA.D.8
Formats Included
- PDF
Pages
15 pages
Brittany McNish
144 Followers
What educators are saying
Used this activity to celebrate my birthday with the class. In small groups they got to plan my birthday party! It was a huge hit! Thank you!!!!!
The students really loved this activity! It was easy to put together and easy for students to follow. It was also a great activity to leave with a sub.
Description
Engage your students in this real world math scenario, in which they will utilize multiple math skills to plan their own birthday party! Students will be begging you to continue working on this fun and motivating math task! This multi-day activity will stimulate your students' logical problem solving skills, while creating a budget and planning out everything they'll need for a great birthday party. While planning and budgeting for their party, students will use addition and subtraction with regrouping, along with multiplication skills. After they have their party all planned out, they will use their knowledge of elapsed time to create a schedule for the day.
This activity can easily be differentiated for different ability level learners! Included with this product is a 4 day plan for how to easily implement this activity into your daily schedule!
This activity makes for a great review of skills or cumulative activity to use after teaching these components!
Please visit my store for more great math activities!!
This activity can easily be differentiated for different ability level learners! Included with this product is a 4 day plan for how to easily implement this activity into your daily schedule!
This activity makes for a great review of skills or cumulative activity to use after teaching these components!
Please visit my store for more great math activities!!
Total Pages
15 pages
Answer Key
Included
Teaching Duration
N/A
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSS3.MD.A.1
Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes, e.g., by representing the problem on a number line diagram.
CCSS3.NBT.A.2
Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
CCSS3.NBT.A.3
Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 in the range 10–90 (e.g., 9 × 80, 5 × 60) using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.
CCSS3.OA.C.7
Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.
CCSS3.OA.D.8
Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.
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