Consumer Percents: Calculating Discounts - Level 2

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Consumer Percents | Discounts | Life Skills Math | Money

Rounding | Calculating Percentages | Level 2

Smart consumers know how to spot a bargain. Knowing how to figure out the discounts on products and services help students become smart consumers. Since businesses often use percentages to indicate the amount of savings, being able to easily convert a percent into a decimal and calculate the sale price or special offer is a very useful life-skill.

The 17 colorful, engaging worksheets in this book will give students plenty of practice calculating discounts.

Questions

Level 2 activities use less familiar percentages to represent various discount amounts from 12% to 62%. It also uses higher value numbers – more prices in the hundreds and thousands. Each worksheet has photos of different categories of products and services. The simple, visually appealing layouts make it easy for students to identify the product or service and its price and then figure out the amount of the discount and the sale price or special offer.

Skills needed are being able to convert percentages into decimals, multiplying and subtracting money up to the hundreds and thousands. Some answers require rounding up or down to the nearest hundredths. 

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• Pets from a Pet Store

• Items for a Baby 

• Various Types of Lessons

• Plush Animals

• Climbing Gear

• Hats

• Camping Supplies

• Glasses & Sunglasses

• Boots

• Musical Instruments

• Furniture

• Bikes, Scooters & Skateboards

• Clothing

• Ski Gear

• Flowering Plants

• Various Classes

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22 Pages

Includes Answer Key

Description
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Consumer Percents | Discounts | Life Skills Math | Money

Rounding | Calculating Percentages | Level 2

Smart consumers know how to spot a bargain. Knowing how to figure out the discounts on products and services help students become smart consumers. Since businesses often use percentages to indicate the amount of savings, being able to easily convert a percent into a decimal and calculate the sale price or special offer is a very useful life-skill.

The 17 colorful, engaging worksheets in this book will give students plenty of practice calculating discounts.

Questions

Level 2 activities use less familiar percentages to represent various discount amounts from 12% to 62%. It also uses higher value numbers – more prices in the hundreds and thousands. Each worksheet has photos of different categories of products and services. The simple, visually appealing layouts make it easy for students to identify the product or service and its price and then figure out the amount of the discount and the sale price or special offer.

Skills needed are being able to convert percentages into decimals, multiplying and subtracting money up to the hundreds and thousands. Some answers require rounding up or down to the nearest hundredths. 