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Maple Market
Penny, a number-loving turkey in reading glasses, needs a sharp helper this Thanksgiving week. Children load the harvest in equal groups, scale pie recipes and set the oven clock, cut price bars to find the real Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, and then spend everything they saved on Giving Tuesday food boxes before the parade and fireworks.
ages 8–12 · about 20 min
What you'll learn
- Multiplication and division as equal groups and arrays
- Scaling fractions in a recipe and working out elapsed time
- Percent off as equal parts of a price, and comparing deals
- Unit price, buy two get one free, shipping and coupons
- Rounding to estimate and multi-step budgets