Students take on the role of a restaurant’s financial manager, tracking income and expenses, calculating a running balance, and analyzing spending patterns using rational number addition and subtraction and using graphs.
Restaurant Manager: Daily Cash Flow is a real-world math worksheet where 7th grade students apply their understanding of adding and subtracting rational numbers to manage a restaurant’s finances. Students act as the restaurant’s financial manager, recording daily income and expenses, maintaining a running balance, and analyzing how spending fluctuates across the week.
Aligned to Common Core Standard 7.NS.A.1 and 7.NS.A.3, this worksheet challenges students to use rational number operations in context—interpreting positive and negative values, calculating net cash flow, and visualizing trends through a daily spending graph.
By the end of the activity, students will have gained hands-on experience using math to make sense of business operations, all while reinforcing their computational fluency and financial reasoning skills.
Students will apply addition and subtraction of rational numbers to track daily income and expenses, maintain a running cash balance, and analyze spending patterns using data and graphs—developing real-world financial reasoning and fluency with rational number operations.
If randomization is enabled, each student will receive a different set of transaction amounts. As a result, their running balances, daily expenses, and final analysis answers will vary—encouraging individualized work and preventing copying.
💡 Tip: When assigning this activity to your classroom, you can optionally enable randomization to give each student a unique version of the problems. When you re-assign the same worksheet, each student will get a new set of questions, helping them master the content through repeated practice.
Apply and extend previous understandings of addition and subtraction to add and subtract rational numbers; represent addition and subtraction on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram.
All 7.NS.A.1 activities →Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving the four operations with rational numbers.
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