Fiesta Time!
As the last project, and a celebration for the end of this math unit, we had a Mexican Fiesta. The boys helped to determine the quantity of food needed and the costs involved. Even though it was a bit hard to determine at times, they got an estimate of the costs.
Using the same prices from the menu we used in the activity, Combination Plates, the boys took orders from the members of our family and wrote each person up their own bills. I took all kinds of pictures, but my video card gave out and they were all lost, so you are going to have to just imagine the boys taking orders and making all those combination plates. : )
We also compared the costs of the actual meal to the menu's and also compared the prices of the menu we used to actual menus from a nearby Mexican restaurant.
related posts:
- La Tostada Sabrosa
- Money Matters: Tostada Cost Analysis
- Money Matters: Setting Tostada Prices
- Combination Plates
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Grades 3-55 Activities
144 pages
This unit provides strong mathematics learning experiences in a real-world context. The Rosada family asks your students for help as they open a Mexican restaurant. Students plan the menu, determine different combinations of tostada ingredients, analyze costs, set prices, expand into combination plates, and figure out the best ways to arrange tables and chairs in a new location. Throughout the unit students gain increasingly sophisticated understandings of combinations. They have many opportunities to work with data organization and analysis, and to explore aspects of statistics. The unit also strengthens number sense, addition/multiplication abilities, and understandings of money in the real world.
