Dan Hemdal

I created this three-part budgeting activity for my Practical Math class. I went online and found a weekly advertisement for a local grocery store and used that for this assignment. However, if you have access to newspapers at your school, you could use any weekly ad from a grocery store for this activity. The first of the assignments is a basic introduction to the activity, they must look through the advertisement and can pick ANYTHING they want to eat for dinner. In this first assignment,

This activity is to be used after you introduce how to write checks. It is a worksheet that starts with the students receiving $500 and throughout the worksheet they have the choice of buying certain items. They must subtract each check from their balance. At the end of the worksheet there are two "check layout" questions asking the students to answer what information goes in certain spots on the check. There is no answer key provided because students can choose different options throughou

This assignment includes two recipes for desserts. The original recipe is listed on the worksheet, and the assignment is that the students need to make more than they originally thought. They must go through and, using their skills of adding and multiplying fractions, create new larger recipes. There are two columns on this assignment for each recipe. One column is for the recipe to be doubled and the other column is for the recipe to be made 4 times bigger.

This Math activity will not only reinforce the process of Mean, Median, Mode and Range, but it will also get your students out of their seats and talking to their classmates. Pass out one worksheet per student and have them interview their classmates until their entire worksheet is filled out, at that point they can return to their seat and complete the worksheet by using their interview answers as their data sets.