Cameron Kennedy and Alex Savage

Tax, Tips, and Discounts

Understanding Goals:
Students will understand that proportions are used in everyday
contexts.
Knowledge Goals:
Terms: Tip, Tax, Sale Price
How to Calculate tax,tips, and discount
Skill Goals:
1.0 Idenify when it is appropriate to utilize a tax, tip, or a discount
off of an item.
2.0 Solve problems involving tax, tips, and discounts.
Directions: Savenndys Restaurant and Grill will be used as an
end of the topic review activity. Tax, Tips, and Discounts are
something students will use in their everyday lives so being able
to incorporate as much practice as possible will help them feel
confident when using these skills in the real world. Also, I think
that students can see this topic as a boring unit, so incorporating
a fun way for students to have a choice of what activities they
complete will help them be a little more enthusiastic about the
topic (Doubet & Hockett, 2015).

Savennedys Restaurant and Grill

While our menu changes from time to time, no matter the season, our
price stays the same. 12.99 for your choice of the following:

Main Dishes (choose 1):

Chicken Nuggets: You are taking your parents out for a surprise
dinner to celebrate their anniversary and are trying to figure out how much
money you will need to take with you to pay for the meal. Using the
attached menu, select your and your parents meals, and figure out how
much the meal will be without tax, how much it will be after tax, and how
much to leave for a tip. Dont forget that you get a 10% discount since your
dad is in the military!
Lasagna: Complete the Tax, TIp, and Discount worksheet. Make sure
you show all of your work.
Hamburger: Get a laptop and complete the IXL M.6 for tax, tip, and
discount. Go to a score of a 100. You must show your work on a notebook
piece of paper.

Side Dishes (Choose 2):

Caesar Salad: Explain the difference between someone purchasing an
item when it was on sale and leaving a tip for a worker.
French Fries: You and a friend are at the store trying to get the best
buy on a new Xbox. You have a coupon for $85 off and your friend has a
coupon for 20% off. If the xbox is $399.00, which coupon should you use?
You know your mom is going to ask which coupon you used when you get
home, so dont forget to explain to her why you choose that one : )
Mac and Cheese: Write a story or explanation to someone who just
moved here from another planet. They have never heard of tax, tip, or
discount and want to learn what they mean and the appropriate time to use
them. To help with your explanation, include a scenario, with the work, that
your friend can keep as an example.

Dessert (choose 1):

Chocolate Lava Cake: Play Meet at the Mall 2. To show that you
completed this activity, please write down the questions you are given, show
your work, and write the correct answers on a sheet of paper.
http://www.mathplayground.com/mathatthemall2.html
Strawberry Shortcake: Using a laptop, complete the Tax, tip, and
discount jeopardy game. You must show your work on a piece of paper for
this activity. This may be done by yourself (choose one team) or with
another person (choose two teams).
https://jeopardylabs.com/play/equations23
Cheesecake: Percent of change scavenger hunt activity. Students can
start wherever they want. The problems are on the bottom of the pages and
the answers are on the top. Have the students do the problem on the bottom
of the page, and that should lead to an answer on another paper. Students
should always end up where they start. There are 15 problems in this
scavenger hunt.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17H_0YVYXzC0K1Q7hCWSKaS7xwt54v6
-ClIJw_EBFcnI/edit

Rubric for Savennedys Restaurant and Grill

3

Shows
mastery of
how to add
a tip to an
object/bill
.

-Thoroughly and
correctly shows
how to add a
tip to an
object/bill
(2.0).

-Shows how to
get the correct
tip but does not
add it to the
bill correctly
(2.0).
OR
-Adds the tip to
the object/bill
correctly but
computes the
incorrect tip
amount (2.0).

-Does not
receive the
correct tip
and does not
add it to
the
object/bill
correctly
(2.0).

Shows
mastery of
how to

-Thoroughly and
correctly shows
how to subtract

-Shows how to
-Does not
compute the
compute the
correct discount correct

subtract a
discount
for an
object/bill
.

a discount from
a bill/object
(2.0).

but subtracts it discount

wrong to the
amount and
object/bill
subtracts it
(2.0).
incorrectly
OR
from the
Subtracts the
object/bill(
discount
2.0).
correctly but
computes the
incorrect
discount that
should be
taken(2.0).

Shows
mastery of
how to add
tax to an
object/bill
.

-Thoroughly and
correctly shows
how to add the
correct tax
amount to an
object/bill
(2.0).

-Shows how to
compute the
correct tax
amount but adds
it wrong to the
object/bill
(2.0).
OR
Adds the tax
amount correctly
but computes the
incorrect tax
amount that
should be taken
(2.0).

-Does not
compute the
correct tax
amount and
adds it
incorrectly
from the
object/bill(
2.0).

-Describes only
two of the
different types
and gives
examples (1.0).
OR
Describes all
three but does
not have
examples(1.0).

-Describes only
one of the
different types
and gives
examples(1.0)..

-Does not
describe the
different
types and
does not
give
examples(1.0
)..

Description
of what
tax/tip/
discount is
and when to
use it.

Describes
tax, tips,
and
discount
thoroughly
with
examples
(1.0).

Name: _________________________
Tax, Tip, and Discount Worksheet
1. Mike's family went out for dinner. The meals including tax cost $69.57. If
they leave a 15% tip, how much money did they spend on dinner?

2. A frozen pizza is on sale at a 25% discount. Find the sale price of the
pizza if it normally sells for $4.85.

3. Sharon bought new basketball shoes. If the shoes cost $69.50 and sales
tax is 4%, how much did Sharon spend for her new shoes?

4. Sneakers that cost $48.99 go on sale for 25% off.

a. What percent of the original price is the sale price?

b. What is the sale price? Round to the nearest cent.

5. The price of a coat is $114 before sales tax. The sales tax is 7%. Find
the total cost of the coat.

6. You go to a stylist for a haircut. The cost of the haircut is $12.50. Find the
amount of a 15% tip for the stylist.

7. Suppose a calculator is on sale at a 15% discount. Find the sale price of

the calculator if it normally sells for $29.99

Bacon Cheeseburger- Menu Activity

Name: _________________
Activity Directions:
Use the following chart to write down what you and your parents are
ordering. The menu is attached on the next page.
Whos Ordering?

Food

Cost

Appetizer for Everyone

Meal:
Your Order

Dessert:
Meal:

Moms Order

Dessert:
Meal:

Dads Order

Dessert:
Total:

Otters Cafe
Appetizers
Cheese Sticks

$2.50

Buffalo Chicken Dip

$2.75

Garlic Bread

$2.50

Dinners
Double Crunch Shrimp

$10.70

Grilled Chicken Caesar

Salad

$9.00

12 oz New York Strip

Steak

$16.00

California Turkey Club

$8.00

Desserts
Triple Chocolate
Meltdown

$5.00

Oreo Cookie Sundae

$3.00

Apple Caramel Supreme

$3.25

What is the price of the dinner without tax and tip?

Price for meal without tax

and tip:

How much tax will you pay? (7%)

Sales tax:
How much is the bill (including tax)?

Total bill:

How much is the bill with your coupon?

Total bill with coupon:

How much tip will you leave if you left 20%?

Tip:

What is the total cost of the dinner?

Total Amount of money

you must bring: