Percent Word Problems: Tipping & Gratuities- Real World Math Worksheet
Life Studies, Home Economics, Special Resources, Life Skills, Math, Multiplication, Multiplication and Division, Percentages, Money
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Tipping is becoming more and more common and the amount you are expected to tip is increasing too. Make sure your students understand what tipping is and how to calculate a tip- useful life skills!
Here’s a ready-to-print real-life percent math lesson for middle school students (in grades 6-9) or special education or life skills classes in a high school setting.
Teach your class all about tipping culture and tips in both Canada and the United States.
Why do people tip or give certain people a gratuity?
What places do we tip? What places do we not?
Has tipping been increasing recently ("tip-flation")?
Show students how the math skills and concepts that they have been learning in class (percentages, decimals, division, fractions) can be useful in their everyday lives!
How to Use:
1. The first page is a handout that you complete with your students (with fill-in-the-blanks) to teach them the ins and outs of tipping: where and when you do it, etc.
2. The second page teaches students two simple methods of calculating tips (using well-known percentage benchmarks OR multiplying the price by a percentage written in decimal form). Encourage your students to determine a third method they could use.
3. After that, there are 7 practice word problems of realistic tipping situations that your students can complete. From tipping for a meal to paying at a salon, or even calculating tax AND tip together, your students will get a lot of real-life practice completing these problems in small groups or own their own.
4. To finish, you can have a class discussion about tipping in general and what your students think about our system.
What's Included: 6 Page PDF
- Teacher Instructions
- Handout with Fill-in-the-Blanks about Tipping
- 3-Page Worksheet and Written Reflection
- COMPLETE ANSWER KEY INCLUDED
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