Financial Literacy Vacation Math Project: Budgeting and Percentages

This Financial Literacy: Vacation Math Project will get students excited about using math skills in everyday life to plan something fun: a vacation! It's a great math project to use before summer vacation or anytime you want to incorporate financial literacy into your curriculum!

They will plan a personal vacation including a flight, hotel, some kind of transportation, food, local attractions, shopping and insurance.

You can assign your students different budgets, vacation dates, and durations to be able to differentiate, or you can give each student the same constraints.

Students will practice making trade-offs to stick within their budget.

Six word problems involving time zones, suitcase weight, taxes & fees, elapsed time, and travel speed are also included.

Student Instructions:
First, choose a destination: _______________________
How far from your hometown is it? ____________________
How many time zones away from you is it? _________________
Now, research all of the costs involved in your vacation.
Make sure to be specific and include all of the taxes and fees in each category too.

Grades to Use With:

This project is great for the middle grades (5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade) when students are learning about operations with decimals, percentages, time zones, and speed calculations- which are a form of unit rate. It could also work well in a high school special education classroom.

What's Included: 6 page PDF including:

• Title Page

• Teacher Instructions and Answer Key

• Planning Page

• Final Budget Page

• 2 Pages of Problem Solving Questions

Standards:

Grade 5 Numbers in Base Ten

Complete the four operations with decimals to the hundredths.

Grade 6 Ratios and Proportional Relationships

Find a percentage of a number.

Use ratios to convert measurements.

Mathematical Practice Standard Number 4:

Model with mathematics to solve everyday problems.

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