Greg Savage

Students often struggle to understand how math concepts are useful in everyday life. In this activity, students apply the distributive property to a real life situation by finding replacements for sold out grocery items. For example, on one page of the activity, students are asked to find a replacement for two packages of 12 bottles of water. The students are told that the store currently has 8-packs, 4-packs, and 2-packs of bottled water available. The goal is for each student to recognize tha