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Tipping

Price: $2.99, format: 7 page PDF, grades: 3,4,5,6,7,8

Next time you're in a restaurant, your young reader can use the information from this issue to calculate the tip for you! A practical life skill, tipping is part of the Financial Literacy Series exposing students to ways in which math is used in everyday situations. Calculating15% of a bill can be easy - when you know the trick! Bonuses include learning that "tip" has more than one meaning and hunting through the newspaper for more homonyms.

In this issue students will:

• learn that the same word can be both a noun and a verb
• learn why customers sometimes "tip" in a restaurant
• learn how to calculate 15% of a bill
• use the newspaper to locate homonyms
• use the internet to locate online games that reinforce learning