Get students excited with this printable PBL Math activity which provides an engaging, differentiated math challenge for students. Students are tasked with running a sweets stand at the farmers' market for a day. Using their knowledge of addition and subtraction, they are required to take orders, tally and graph sale data, complete a data analysis report, calculate stock inventory and more! Students then bring our their creativity by creating 3 new sweet items to sell, redesign the sweets stand and create an advertisement for the stand/new items. There is a reflection question sheet to complete once the project has been completed.

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This PBL is great as extended practice or even as an end of unit or end of year review.

There are THREE DIFFERENTIATED menus for this activity.

The first version has a menu with 2 digit number prices and challenges students to use their knowledge of 2 digit addition and subtraction to complete the activity.

The second version has a menu with prices in whole dollars only which gives students a real life experience in counting, adding and subtracting money and calculating change.

The third version has a menu with prices in dollars and cents, which is perfect for those students up for a challenge.

Use the version that is suitable for your students or use all three to differentiate. These can be used as an individual project exercise or it can be completed in small groups.

What's Included?

• Instruction Page
• Letter from the owner to the students
• Foldable menu (color and B&W)
• One page menu option (color and B&W)
• Customer Order form sheets - Students will display their menu, take orders from their fellow classmates and calculate the total cost of each order.
• Data Collection Tally and Graph - student use information from the orders they collected and create a tally of the number of each item they sold and graph it on a bar graph
• Data Analysis Report - students fill out the report using the information from their graph
• Find the total of orders with 2 items - calculate the total of the orders provided
• Find the total of orders with 3 items - calculate the total of the orders provided (more of a challenge since its adding 3 items)
• Calculate daily stock inventory - calculate how much stock of each item you had at the end of the day
• Calculate weekly stock inventory - calculate how much stock of each item you had at the end of the week
• Create new sweet items - students will create 3 new items to sell at the sweets stand. They will draw it, describe it, give it a name and suggested selling price
• Redesign the sweets stand - students redesign the sweets stand/ layout and include items and any advertising materials
• Create an advertisement - Students design an advertisement for the sweets stand and/or new items they are selling
• Reflection Questions - After the PBL has been completed, there is a reflection question worksheet for students to fill out to find out what part of this overall activity they enjoyed, found difficult or would change.
  

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