Let's save some money! High schoolers investigate different options for price reductions. They then determine the best and worst sale from a list of options.

Concepts

sales, percents, percent decrease, percent change, proportional reasoning

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Additional Tags

math

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the item on a unit assessment on proportional reasoning and percents

Classroom Considerations

• Learners must be able to manipulate percents without having specific values
• Scholars should have prior experience with percent decreases

Pros

• Learners can relate to the context
• Tasks includes scored student work as examples of how to apply the rubric

Cons

• The resource is missing punctuation in many areas

Common Core

7.RP.A.3 MP2 MP3 MP6 MP7