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Community Kitchen - Weekly Budget

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  • Price per Classroom$3.00
  • Grade Levels 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
  • Topics Fractions, Ratios & Proportions, Budgeting
  • Duration 20 Minutes
  • Auto Scored? Yes
  • Teacher Evaluation Needed? No

Activity Description

In this engaging worksheet activity, students step into the role of kitchen managers tasked with planning meals for a community within a specified budget.


Storyline: You have been appointed the master chef of our community kitchen. The mayor has handed you a sweet budget of $5000 to whip up meals for the entire community for a week. Your mission is to create delicious, nutritious meals without breaking the bank.


Each meal will include the following items:

  1. Turkey
  2. Mashed Potatoes
  3. Gravy
  4. Carrot
  5. Peas
  6. Cranberry Sauce


The student's task is to find out how many meals can be prepared using the $5000 fund. To do so, students will first convert the measurement units of each ingredient from cups/tablespoons and ounces to pounds and gallons. Then they will use the given rate card to calculate the cost of each ingredient and finally, they will calculate the total cost of a meal.

Learning Objective

The learning objectives are:

  1. Students will develop an understanding of budgeting by managing a given amount of money to purchase ingredients for a Thanksgiving feast.
  2. Students will understand the application of Math concepts such as unit conversion, ratios, and fractions in a real-life scenario.

Teacher Tips

Included with the activity, you can view the tips to clarify student's doubts or to evaluate answers (for a teacher scored worksheet).

Common Core: MATH

Ratios & Proportions

Understand the concept of a unit rate a/b associated with a ratio a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. *For example, "This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar." "We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger."*

Ratios & Proportions

Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.

Ratios & Proportions

Solve unit rate problems including those involving unit pricing and constant speed. *For example, if it took 7 hours to mow 4 lawns, then at that rate, how many lawns could be mowed in 35 hours? At what rate were lawns being mowed?*

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  • Price per Classroom$3.00
  • Grade Levels 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
  • Topics Fractions, Ratios & Proportions, Budgeting
  • Duration 20 Minutes
  • Auto Scored? Yes
  • Teacher Evaluation Needed? No

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