Daily Marketplace Skills: Calculating Sales Tax - Google Slides Gr. 6-12 (SPED)
Calculating sales tax on a subtotal, adding it to reach the grand total, and judging true-or-false statements about tax make up this Google Slides consumer math lesson.

- Grades
- Grades 6–12, Middle School, High School
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Life Studies, Math, Money
- Topic
- Resource types
- Presentations, Teacher Tools
- Preparation
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The Daily Marketplace Skills: Calculating Sales Tax - Google Slides Gr. 6-12 (SPED)
An invaluable teaching resource aimed to provide educators with a simplified method of imparting practical market skills to their students. Catering specifically towards Grade 6 through Grade 12 special education participants, this tool focuses on offering lessons centered on the concept of sales tax.
Resource Features
- Caters to Interactive learning through editing activity components
- Comprehension check-ups for understanding confirmation
- Easy-to-follow reading passages for seamless learning
This resource aligns with State Standards and enfolds Bloom's Taxonomy principles encouraging different levels of critical thinking in learners. It combines simple vocabulary with high-interest topics ensuring comprehension for all learner types.
Potential Use
- Whole group instruction
- Brief breakout sessions assignment
- Independent studies module or home assignment extensions
Included Resources:
- A comprehensive PDF guide containing detailed steps assisting teachers on how best they can use these slides within their classrooms plus grading solutions. All content included is reproducible enhancing flexibility plus economic considerations when deciding on its usage within your educational program plan.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Calculate sales tax as a percentage of a subtotal
- Find the total cost by adding tax to the subtotal
Teaching tips
- Students need a Google account and internet access to work in their own copy of the deck.
Skills covered
- Percent calculation — finding the tax on a purchase subtotal
- Consumer vocabulary — using terms such as subtotal, total and method of payment
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Core concepts
- Sales tax
- Subtotal
- Total cost
- Percent
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