1. Monica Campagna, Nicole DiBlasio, & Emily Fox
Consumer Math
Monica Campagna, Nicole DiBlasio,
& Emily Fox

2. Introduction LET'S HAVE A CAKE-OFF!
You have to prepare a strawberry shortcake for the Strawberry Festival.
Students will be divided into groups of 3 and will be assigned a grocery store in which to buy their ingredients.

3. Task Lesson Objectives - find the unit price for products
- find percent savings
Recipe for strawberry shortcake:
easy/strawberry-shortcake- recipe/index.html

4. Process
You will be placed into groups of three and will be assigned a store to purchase your ingredients
Your objective will be to find and buy the cheapest ingredients in your store*
Find the unit price of each ingredient used in the strawberry shortcake recipe on the Food Network website
Total the cost of all the ingredients and total the cost of just the ingredients needed to make one cake with the help of the provided conversion chart
*For extra credit, if any of your items are on sale find the percent decrease and the amount saved

5. Group Assignments Group 1 - Stop and Shop Group 2 - Shop Rite
Group 3 - Pathmark
Group 4 - Waldbaums
Group 5 - The Food Emporium
Group 6 - Shop Rite
Group 7 - Pathmark
Group 8 - Waldbaums
Group 9 - Stop and Shop
Group 10 - The Food Emporium
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Group 3 -
Group 4 -
Group 5 -
Group 6 -
Group 7 -
Group 8 -
Group 9 -
Group 10 -

6. Conversion Chart

7. Conclusion Which team was able to make the cheapest cake?
Based on the unit price, what were your cheapest and most expensive items?
What are some advantages to finding the unit price?

8. Evaluation Criteria 1 2 3 Your grade Content
Shows none of the necessary work
Shows minimal computations
Shows all work and computations correctly and neatly.
_____
Accuracy
Does not know formulas
Can find unit price and measurements, but with occasional error
Can apply formulas to find unit price and conversion of measurements
Comprehension
Has no understanding of concept
Can find unit price, but some difficulty with concept
Understands purpose of assignment and how to find unit price
TOTAL

9. Teacher Page Common Core State Standard
6.RP.2 - understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems
7.RP.1 - analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems

10. About the Authors Monica Campagna
is a bubbly Italian who enjoys food, math and Michael Buble
Nicole DiBlasio
likes to engage in Harry Potter, food, and Disney related activities
Emily Fox
is an intelligent aspiring math teacher who enjoys sketching, going to Broadway plays and listening to alternative rock in her spare time