Grocery shopping done with or without a calculator is an exercise in math. Education linked with details of grocery shopping merge to define an everyday use of storytelling.
Liz The Whiz Kid Totals The Fruit From Grocery Shopping is a story about math as it can be exercised in tallying a grocery purchase. Since groceries are normally a repetitive function for most households many math applications can be used.
Liz The Whiz Kid Totals The Fruit From Grocery Shopping can be used as educational lesson plans with the following possibilities:
1. Adding all groceries purchased.
2. Subtraction of all coupons used.
3. Multiplication of all like items and their totals.
4. Adding of all like items and their totals.
5. Subtraction of food items from non food items.
6. Listing of specific items and their totals. Examples of this would be toothpaste, bath tissue, vegetables.
7. Listings of all green foods with their totals added.
8. Subtract taxes from cash register receipts.
9. Tally all cash register receipts for the week, month or year.
10. Adding all coupon savings by week, month or year.
11. Comparison of prices by store.

These are only a few of the curriculum possibilities for the Liz The Whiz Kid Totals The Fruit From Grocery Shopping story.

Copyright 2005 by A. Doyle

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