Our restaurant project has provided some very rich opportunities to look at math on an everyday level. One part of it had us looking at the cost of purchasing the items that we will be serving to other students. We measured and figured out how many glasses of juice we could get out of a carton, we looked at our data to determine how many students will be having apple juice and how many will be having hot chocolate, and then determined how much of each drink we will have to purchase.
We have not started our money unit in our classroom, but discussions about money at home are very beneficial. If you happen to have flyers like the ones below delivered to your house, open them up with your child and compare the prices of various stores. If you collect spare change in a jar, empty some of it out onto a table and count out the price of an item in the flyer.
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