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Students learn about calculating sales discounts and sales tax.

 

 

 

DISCOUNT AND SALES TAX LESSON PLAN:

How much does that shirt cost?

 

Objectives:

1. The student will be able to change percents to decimals and find the percent of a number.

 

2. The student will be able to calculate the amount of discount, sale price, and sales tax for a dollar amount.

3. The student will be able to calculate the total cost of an item based on percent discount and sales tax.

4. The student will be able to mentally calculate amount of discount, sale price, sales tax, and total cost for an item that is 10% off and 5% sales tax.

5. The student will be able to write in complete sentences how they mentally solved a discount and sales tax problem.

 

Standards:  NCTM Standards: 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

 

Suggested Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade - Elementary Education

 
 

 

 

Materials:

Procedure:

1.  Warm-up: Review converting percents to decimals. Have students change the following percents to decimals. 55%, 3%, 100%, 1.5%, 33.67%

 

2. Motivate the Lesson: Ask students if they ever look at the price tag of toys and clothes at the store. What happens at the register? Do you pay the exact amount on the price tag? What does it mean to have a sale? Verify that students understand the definition of the word “discount”. Ask students if they know the definition of sales tax. What is the current sales tax in their state?

 

3. Proceed through the lesson with the “Question of the Day”. Explain that they are solving real world problems today. Encourage students to apply this knowledge the next time they go to the store.

 

4. Verify that students understand the definitions of the amount of discount, sale price, sales tax, and total cost. Students tend to confuse these definitions. Have each student write the definitions in their notes for future reference.

 

5. Have students complete the Discount and Sales Tax worksheet for homework.

 

 

 

 

Lesson Printable Materials - Worksheets

Print out the following pages for use with this resume writing lesson:

 

DISCOUNT AND SALES TAX LESSON

Discount and Sales Tax Lesson *

Lesson excerpt - Lillard’s, your local department store, is having their annual fall sale. Clothing, shoes, jewelry and many other items are on sale. The original price of each item is listed below.

How much does it cost to buy the $22.95 blue shirt? Does it cost $22.95? How does the sale discount and sales tax affect the total cost of the shirt?

First let’s figure out how to find the sale price based on the original price and the percent of discount.
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DISCOUNT AND SALES TAX WORKSHEET

Discount and Sales Tax Worksheet *

Student worksheet on sales discounts and sales tax.

       

 

 

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