The San Diego Street Food Festival - Multiplication & Division
Ramon's Big Weekend — The San Diego Street Food Festival
Ramon owns Ramon's Tacos, a beloved San Diego food truck, and he just scored an invite to the city's biggest street food festival. There's only one problem - he threw out his back. That means you're stepping in as his most trusted assistant, running every calculation from Thursday night prep all the way through Sunday's final profit split.
This Grade 6 interactive worksheet places students inside a real business scenario where every calculation feeds the next. Students multiply packs by servings to check supply levels, divide register totals to find units sold, compute tacos-per-hour production rates, split pooled tips fairly among workers, and finally determine whether Ramon earned enough to cover his $3,000 fryer repair. The stakes feel real — and the math has to be right.
Students stay engaged because the numbers are theirs. With randomization enabled, each student works with unique values generated via backward construction, so all division and multiplication problems produce clean whole-number answers. No messy remainders, no unrealistic decimals — just authentic math in a believable context.
Pre-Requisites
- Fluency with multi-digit whole-number multiplication
- Fluency with whole-number long division
- Basic understanding of what a rate describes (e.g., tacos per hour)
- Familiarity with splitting a total amount equally among a group
Key Features
- 5 sequenced tables covering the full festival weekend (Thursday through Sunday)
- Auto-graded number inputs and dropdown selections with instant feedback
- Randomized values using backward construction — every student gets unique, clean whole-number problems
- Personalized name input places the student's name directly in the tip-split narrative
- Conditional banner celebrates whether Ramon's $3,000 fryer goal was met
- Dynamic revenue totals auto-sum across the week
Best Used After
Assign this worksheet after students have practiced multi-digit multiplication and long division fluency. It works well as a culminating application task following a unit on 6.NS.B operations.
Learning Standards
- 6.NS.B.2 — Fluently divide multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm
- 6.NS.B.3 — Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi-digit decimals using the standard algorithm
- 6.RP.A.1 — Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio reasoning (tacos-per-hour production rates, tips-per-worker splits)
Learning Objective
In this worksheet, students will apply multi-digit multiplication to verify supply quantities against a production goal across multiple ingredients in Table 1. Students will calculate whole-number division to determine tacos-per-hour production rates from past event data in Table 2. Students will divide daily register totals by taco price to find units sold across Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in Table 3, and compute the weekend's total revenue. Students will divide pooled tip amounts equally among workers for each festival day in Table 4, then calculate total expenses, net profit, and an equal 5-way profit split in Table 5 to determine whether Ramon's $3,000 fryer repair goal was achieved.
Randomization Available
This worksheet supports randomization. if enabled, each student will receive unique supply quantities, register totals, and tip amounts. Every student works through the same five-table festival story with the same structure and difficulty level, but different numbers, making it easy to prevent copying. Would you like to enable randomization for this assignment?
💡 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.
