Description
This is a Thanksgiving-themed sheet for percent change word problems, appropriate for students in grades 6-8, depending on their experience with percents.
There are four multi-part problems. Students find percent change in turkey price inflation, dinner travel time, football watching time, and Thanksgiving Parade attendance.
This will probably take students 20-40 minutes. These are not whole-number answers: a calculator will be needed.
The first page is the question page to run off by itself. The second page is the answer key. No prep: Print and go!
For a non-calculator version (easier numbers), go here:
Thanksgiving Percent Change (no calculator version)
WHY I MADE THIS: In 20+ years of teaching algebra, I got frustrated by middle school curricula that have students find percent, parts, and wholes, but gloss over or omit entirely the idea of percent change. Thinking of financial literacy, data science, demographics, etc., percent change is arguably the most important kind of percent problem to be able to do in "real life", so I started creating percent change word problems to fill this missing link. And since one can't do percent change without doing "regular" percent problems, you aren't ignoring those types of problems by spending time on percent change.
Enjoy and let me know what you thought of this resource!
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Description
This is a Thanksgiving-themed sheet for percent change word problems, appropriate for students in grades 6-8, depending on their experience with percents.
There are four multi-part problems. Students find percent change in turkey price inflation, dinner travel time, football watching time, and Thanksgiving Parade attendance.
This will probably take students 20-40 minutes. These are not whole-number answers: a calculator will be needed.
The first page is the question page to run off by itself. The second page is the answer key. No prep: Print and go!
For a non-calculator version (easier numbers), go here:
Thanksgiving Percent Change (no calculator version)
WHY I MADE THIS: In 20+ years of teaching algebra, I got frustrated by middle school curricula that have students find percent, parts, and wholes, but gloss over or omit entirely the idea of percent change. Thinking of financial literacy, data science, demographics, etc., percent change is arguably the most important kind of percent problem to be able to do in "real life", so I started creating percent change word problems to fill this missing link. And since one can't do percent change without doing "regular" percent problems, you aren't ignoring those types of problems by spending time on percent change.
Enjoy and let me know what you thought of this resource!
