Consumer Percents - Mall Shopping: Discounts & Sales Tax Level 1 - Real World Activities

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Consumer Percents| Mall Shopping| Discounts & Sales Tax| Life Skills Math| Money| Calculating Percentages

 Being able to successfully calculate percentages is a necessary life skill. The Consumer Percent series gives students lots of practical practice calculating percentages representing discounts on products or services and sales tax, which is often part of the total price of any purchase. 

 Who doesn’t like shopping at the mall? This book focuses on the familiar situation of making purchases at a shopping mall. The 17 colorful, engaging worksheets in this book provide “shopping scenarios” that students can relate to. Many of the “stores visited” can be found in malls across the country. The activities are presented in a variety of formats sure to keep students interested.

Questions:

Level 1 activities use simple, common percentages to represent a variety of discounts 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 sale price or tax amount. Other skills needed are adding, subtracting, and multiplying money. No rounding is required.

Mall Stores Include:

• Famous Footwear

• Bath & Body Works

• amc Theater

• Cinnabon

• GameStop

• Baskin • Robbins

• LensCrafters

• Creative Kids

• Champs Sports

• Earthbound Trading Company

• Candy Tyme

• Forever 21

• Auntie Anne’s Pretzels

• Sock Harbor

• Gymboree

• Ulta Beauty

• Poppie’s Toys & Games

22 Pages

Includes Answer Key

Description
Reviews

Consumer Percents| Mall Shopping| Discounts & Sales Tax| Life Skills Math| Money| Calculating Percentages

 Being able to successfully calculate percentages is a necessary life skill. The Consumer Percent series gives students lots of practical practice calculating percentages representing discounts on products or services and sales tax, which is often part of the total price of any purchase. 

 Who doesn’t like shopping at the mall? This book focuses on the familiar situation of making purchases at a shopping mall. The 17 colorful, engaging worksheets in this book provide “shopping scenarios” that students can relate to. Many of the “stores visited” can be found in malls across the country. The activities are presented in a variety of formats sure to keep students interested.

Questions:

Level 1 activities use simple, common percentages to represent a variety of discounts 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 sale price or tax amount. Other skills needed are adding, subtracting, and multiplying money. No rounding is required.