Track your budget on a 3-day road trip by calculating gas costs, food expenses, and entrance fees. Students solve multi-step problems using decimals and precents to stay within a $200 budget.
In this engaging math activity, students take a virtual 3-day road trip where they must manage a $200 travel budget while solving multi-step real-world problems. Each day involves calculating mileage-based gas costs, adjusting for food purchases and returns, applying discounts, and summing expenses using decimal and percent operations.
Aligned to 7.EE.B.3, this worksheet challenges students to apply rational number operations in context, analyze totals, and reason about spending choices. It supports financial literacy, problem-solving, and precision in decimal calculations—all wrapped in a relatable and fun storyline.
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Perfect for 7th-grade classrooms focused on real-life math applications!
Students will solve multi-step real-world problems involving rational numbers, including decimals and percentages. They will calculate unit rates, apply discounts, track expenses, and evaluate totals to stay within a fixed budget. Through this activity, students will develop fluency in using operations with rational numbers in context and improve their ability to reason strategically about financial decision-making.
If randomization is enabled, each student will receive different values for miles driven, gas prices, meal costs, and discount percentages. This ensures that every student solves a unique version of the trip while practicing the same math skills. As a result, correct answers will vary across students.
💡 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.
Solve multi-step real-life and mathematical problems posed with positive and negative rational numbers in any form (whole numbers, fractions, and decimals), using tools strategically. Apply properties of operations to calculate with numbers in any form; convert between forms as appropriate; and assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies. *For example: If a woman making $25 an hour gets a 10% raise, she will make an additional 1/10 of her salary an hour, or $2.50, for a new salary of $27.50. If you want to place a towel bar 9 3/4 inches long in the center of a door that is 27 1/2 inches wide, you will need to place the bar about 9 inches from each edge; this estimate can be used as a check on the exact computation*.
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