Description
This mini problem based learning unit will help you students practice multi-digit subtraction and addition, multiplication, division, rounding, and decimals through real world economic scenarios. You student will open up a business and be faced with rewards and challenges real world business owners face throughout a year. At the end, your student's goal is to have a positive profit after the year is finished. Scenarios will be given to your students in a way similar to the Life game. To finish the PBL, your students can reflect about what parts of economics surprised them and what they learned during this activity.
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Highlights
Digital downloads
Grades
3rd - 5th
Subjects
Standards
CCSS3.NBT.A.1
CCSS3.NBT.A.2
CCSS3.NBT.A.3
Pages
13
Description
This mini problem based learning unit will help you students practice multi-digit subtraction and addition, multiplication, division, rounding, and decimals through real world economic scenarios. You student will open up a business and be faced with rewards and challenges real world business owners face throughout a year. At the end, your student's goal is to have a positive profit after the year is finished. Scenarios will be given to your students in a way similar to the Life game. To finish the PBL, your students can reflect about what parts of economics surprised them and what they learned during this activity.
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Awesome resource and so easy to implement into the classroom!
This has really helped my class understand economics! Thank you!
This was a fun and useful resource for my economics class
Loved it!
Great for economics and math skills
Thank you for creating an engaging resource
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Standards
to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
CCSS3.NBT.A.1
Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.
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.
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