Community Kitchen - Weekly Budget Planning
Activity Description
In this interactive Community Kitchen math worksheet, students take on the role of meal planners preparing food for a large group. Each meal includes classic holiday ingredients like turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, carrots, peas, cranberry sauce, and more. Students are given the quantity of each ingredient needed for one meal, with units expressed in tablespoons, cups, and ounces. Using a conversion table and a realistic grocery price chart, they convert all quantities into standard units (pounds or gallons) and calculate the cost of each item.
Aligned with 7th grade Common Core math standards (7.RP.A.1, 7.RP.A.2, 7.EE.B.3), this worksheet builds essential real-world math skills through:
- ✅ Unit conversions across various measurements
- ✅ Unit rate and proportional reasoning to compute total cost
- ✅ Decimal operations and multi-step problem solving
- ✅ Budgeting and cost analysis using real-world grocery pricing
Students also calculate the total cost of one meal and determine how many meals can be prepared with a fixed budget of $5000.
Learning Objective
The learning objectives are:
- Students will develop an understanding of budgeting by managing a given amount of money to purchase ingredients for a Thanksgiving feast.
- Students will understand the application of Math concepts such as unit conversion, ratios, and fractions in a real-life scenario.
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