Have your students practice calculating discounts and sales tax by using a sales advertisement.
Directions:
1. Choose 4 items from the sale flyer to buy
2. Calculate the discount for each item
3. Add up the total cost of all the items
4. Find out how much sales tax you would pay if the sales tax is 8%
a. Add the sales tax to your total item cost
This activity is designed to allow students some hands on sorting/matching of parent function transformations to their equations and the vertical/hortizonal shifts that moved them.
This document contains an answer sheet for students, 18 graphs, 18 movements, 18 equations, and an Answer Key.
Cut out each graph, movement, and equation and have students match them and record their answers on the answer sheet.
Print on cardstock to use multiple times!
Practice calculating discount and sales tax using a sale flyer
Directions:
1. Choose 4 items from the sale flyer to buy
2. Calculate the discount for each item
3. Add up the total cost of all the items
4. Find out how much sales tax you would pay if the sales tax is 8%
a. Add the sales tax to your total item cost
Answers will vary depending on student choices.