Description

Keep students doing real math right before Thanksgiving break with Let’s Host Thanksgiving!, a one-day mini math project where students plan Thanksgiving dinner for a family without going over budget. Each pair pulls a Guest Card with a family, a guest count, a budget and a dinner time, then plans the whole feast. There’s more than one right answer, so students have to make decisions, adjust their plans and explain their thinking.

What Students Do:

• Use unit rates to find food costs and how many pans and pies they need
• Plan a turkey, 3 sides and a dessert, then fix their menu if it goes over budget
• Write and solve a two-step equation to decide whether to cook or cater
• Work backward with elapsed time to find when the turkey goes in the oven

What’s Inside:

• 3 student pages: My Menu, Plan the Feast! and Cook or Cater?
• 12 Guest Cards with different families, budgets and dinner times
• Thanksgiving Price List in color and black and white
• 12 grocery store station posters plus an optional gallery walk
• Teacher notes with a 50-minute lesson plan
• Answer key with a sample plan and guidance for open-ended answers

Skills Covered:

• Unit rates
• Two-step equations
• Operations with decimals and money
• Budgeting and rounding up
• Elapsed time

Fits in one class period, or spread it across two days. Aligned to CCSS 7.EE.B.4a, 7.RP.A.2 and 7.EE.B.3, plus VA SOL and TEKS.

You may also like the Thanksgiving Activity Pack for Middle School.

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