Introduction
IT'S TIME TO GO SHOPPING AND FIND THE...
YOU JUST FINISHED YOUR ACT ASPIRE AND YOU PASSED WITH FLYING COLORS!!!
IT'S LIKE WINNING THE LOTTERY - THE PRINCIPAL IS GIVING YOU $2,500 TO DECORATE YOUR VERY OWN STUDENT LOUNGE!
This WebQuest lets you have a hand at designing and decorating your very own student lounge!! Budgets and resources are given for each project, and you must abide by the budget! Keep in mind that you must pay sales tax on all purchases and shipping and handling fees on all purchases.
Task
You just won the 6th grade LOTTERY--you passed the ACT with flying colors!!! Since you all did such an excellent job, your principal has given you $2,500 to create your very own student lounge so you may relax, have a trendy place for team meetings, guest speakers, and special events here at school.
There are a few requirements for you to follow. The principal wants you to purchase the following items:
* 2 NEW COUCHES
* 1 AREA RUG (minimum 12 by 15)
* 1 TELEVISION (minimum 42-inch)
* 3 to 5 WALL PICTURES
* 2 COFFEE TABLES
* After you have met these requirements, you may spend the remaining money however you like!
Process
READ ALL STEPS BEFORE BEGINNING!
You will be working on a design team to develop a plan for the new student lounge. Remember, you have $2,500 to spend including tax and shipping. HOWEVER, YOU MUST SPEND AT LEAST $2,300! Each member of the team will have three roles: shopping consultant, accountant, and designer.
ACCOUNTANT:
Each of you will be an accountant and will be responsible for computing tax and shipping costs at the end. You will fill out the purchase order form. Remember that your tax and shipping will be included in your total expenditures. The tax in Florida is 6.5%. The total shipping cost for everything will be a flat rate of $100.00.
Download the Order Form Sheet Here: Word or PDF
SHOPPING CONSULTANTS:
Each team member will be a "shopping consultant" and will have a part in the decision making process of what will be purchased. You may decide who researches the different items. Remember, you need to purchase the following items:
* 2 NEW COUCHES
* 1 AREA RUG (minimum 5 feet by 7 feet)
* 1 TELEVISION (minimum 42-inch)
* 3 to 5 WALL PICTURES
* 2 COFFEE TABLES
* After you have met these requirements, you may spend the remaining money however you like!
Click the following pictures to go shopping!
FINAL PRODUCT:
Now it's time to publish your choices. Make sure that you have not gone over your budget of $2,500, and that your total amount includes shipping and the sales tax.
You will hand in the following items:
*Your Completed Order Form
*Your Group's Design for the Student Lounge on Poster Board with Printed Pictures! Prices of objects must be documented on the board!
REMEMBER, YOU MUST SPEND BETWEEN $2,300 AND $2,500!!!
Evaluation
Conclusion
Well done! Now you know the importance of managing a budget and saving money to purchase things you want! You have completed your task. Your shopping is done, your computations are correct--especially finding your tax--, and your table is complete and neat! You have mastered the difficult task of finding tax (the percent of a number), and you understand what an important part of real life it really is!
Credits
Created by Mr. Shocket @ Okeeheelee Community Middle School.
All Rights Reserved.
Adapted to Alabama Standards by Summer Johnson
Teacher Page
Teacher Introduction
This WebQuest lets 6th graders have a hand at designing and decorating a student lounge. Budgets and resources are given for each project, and students must abide by the budget, keeping in mind that they must pay sales tax on all purchases and shipping on purchases made from catalogs.
Learners
This WebQuest is designed as a review of finding percent (sales tax), whole number operations, and problem solving, for 6th grade math students. It provides them with a realistic situation in which math is a necessity
Standards
2.) Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. [6-RP2]
Examples: "This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar." "We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger." (Expectations for unit rates in this grade are limited to non-complex fractions.)
3.) Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations. [6-RP3]
c. Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100 (e.g., 30% of a quantity means 30/100 times the quantity); solve problems involving finding the whole, given a part and the percent. [6-RP3c]
6.) Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation. [6-NS3]