Getting a meal, side dish, drink, and dessert can be delicious—but it can be expensive too! Practice addition and subtraction with money in a lesson that focuses on a sample menu, complete with task cards and word problems.

Concepts

consumer math, menus, restaurants, money word problems, problem solving strategies

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Have class members bring in takeout menus from local restaurants, or have them find the menus online, to answer the same questions
• Place learners into small groups or pairs to complete different task cards and word problems, then switch cards

Classroom Considerations

• Background of the cards is in color, which could needlessly use a lot of ink
• May require money manipulatives based on age math level of class members

Pros

• Provides an answer key for the word problems
• Promotes real-world application of math concepts

Cons

• None