Increasing and Decreasing Patterns Worksheet: Tables Graphs Money Math
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Increasing and Decreasing Patterns: Money Math
Tables and Simple Graphs
Here’s a ready-to-go math lesson that helps your students apply what they are learning about pattern rules, increasing and decreasing patterns, tables, and graphs to simple, real-world financial situations.
Each situation is a realistic financial scenario for a student in elementary school.
Saving allowance money each week in a piggy bank.
Selling cups of lemonade for a profit.
Spending money from a fund for class birthday celebrations.
Students will:
Complete a table of values to explore each increasing or decreasing pattern.
Graph the pattern on a simple grid that is already set up and labelled (two scenarios will be bar graphs and one will be a line graph).
Write a pattern rule in words for the situation.
Determine when the pattern will cross a certain threshold (for example, when the student has enough saved up for a big purchase, when the birthday fund runs out of money, etc. ).
COMPLETE ANSWER KEY INCLUDED
Grades to Use With:
This lesson is designed for students in grades 4 or 5 who are learning about increasing and decreasing patterns, tables of value, bar graphs, line graphs, and early algebra ideas including pattern rules in words. It could also be used by middle school special education students or as a review in grade 6.
If you enjoy this early algebra activity, check out several others in my store. I always try to show students how the math skills that they are learning in the classroom can be so helpful in everyday life!
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