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Making Savvy Consumer Choices

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It's never too early to learn about grocery budgeting. Middle schoolers delve into the world of consumer math with a instructional activity that focuses on both healthy choices and real-world math applications. Groups work together to form a grocery budget based on the four food groups, and reflect on their group experience.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
consumer awareness, real-world applications, consumer math, consumer skills, number sense, proportions, measurement, healthy habits, adding decimals, subtracting decimals, unit conversion, budgeting, personal finance, healthy eating
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Additional Tags
math
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Instructional Ideas
  • Create a cross-curricular unit between math and social studies
  • Host a field trip to the grocery store to collect materials for a class party, and to put class members' budgets to the test
Classroom Considerations
  • Includes optional use of an interactive whiteboard
  • Published in Canada with Canadian supplemental materials, but general lessons are applicable to any country
Pros
  • Comes with links to auxiliary resources
  • Provides handouts for calculating food costs and noting the purpose and benefits of the budget process, and an exit ticket about what they learned from the activity 
Cons
  • None