Consumer Percents Set: Tips & Taxes 1 & 2

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Consumer Percents | Tips & Taxes | Life Skills Math | Money | Calculating Percentages 

When should you tip? For students to become conscientious consumers, it’s important to know when it’s appropriate to tip someone for their service. It’s also important to know how to figure out how much to tip. Since tips are based on a percentage of the cost of a service or the cost of a purchase, practice with calculating percentages is key.

Students will also get practice figuring out the sales tax on a service or purchase. Understanding the concept of “sales tax” and how to calculate it is an essential life skill for consumers.

The 30 colorful, engaging worksheets in these books feature different situations where it is common to give a tip and apply sales tax. The activities are presented in a variety of fun formats to keep students interested. 

Questions

Level 1 activities use simple, common percentages to represent a variety of tips and sales tax amounts. Level 2 activities use less common percentages to represent a variety of tip amounts and sales tax amounts. The book starts with two pages of step-by-step instructions that remind students how to convert a percent into a decimal and then figure out the tip or tax amount. Other skills needed are adding money. Rounding to the nearest hundredths is required for most answers.

Tipping Scenarios Include:

Services provided at –

• Hair Salons

• Barber Shops

• Restaurants

• Dog Groomers

• Nail Salons

• Massage Studios

Other Tipping Scenarios Include:

• Yard Work

• Food Delivery

• Transportation

• Grocery Delivery

34 Pages

Includes Answer Keys

Description
Reviews

Consumer Percents | Tips & Taxes | Life Skills Math | Money | Calculating Percentages 

When should you tip? For students to become conscientious consumers, it’s important to know when it’s appropriate to tip someone for their service. It’s also important to know how to figure out how much to tip. Since tips are based on a percentage of the cost of a service or the cost of a purchase, practice with calculating percentages is key.

Students will also get practice figuring out the sales tax on a service or purchase. Understanding the concept of “sales tax” and how to calculate it is an essential life skill for consumers.

The 30 colorful, engaging worksheets in these books feature different situations where it is common to give a tip and apply sales tax. The activities are presented in a variety of fun formats to keep students interested. 

Questions

Level 1 activities use simple, common percentages to represent a variety of tips and sales tax amounts. Level 2 activities use less common percentages to represent a variety of tip amounts and sales tax amounts. The book starts with two pages of step-by-step instructions that remind students how to convert a percent into a decimal and then figure out the tip or tax amount. Other skills needed are adding money. Rounding to the nearest hundredths is required for most answers.