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Next time you’re in a restaurant, your young reader can use the information from this issue to calculate the tip for you! A practical life skill, tipping is part of the Financial Literacy Series exposing students to ways in which math is used in everyday situations. Calculating 15% of a bill can be easy—when you know the trick! Bonuses include learning that “tip” has more than one meaning and hunting through the newspaper for more homonyms.
In this issue students will:
- learn that the same word can be both a noun and a verb
- learn why customers sometimes “tip” in a restaurant
- learn how to calculate 15% of a bill
- use the newspaper to locate homonyms
- use the internet to locate online games that reinforce learning
7 page PDF
