Menu Math: Real Life Application

I want my students to be motivated and excited about their learning. I think that it is safe to say that this is how most teachers feel. I also want student work to be of value….I strong dislike “busy work.” I set out to create some resources that bundled the idea of real-world skills with motivating and interesting math practice. I wanted to create something that my students would benefit from and something that was easy to differentiate. I also wanted to have something that worked in a variety of different setting: small group, whole group, independent, centers…I wanted to get the most bang for my buck! It was with this in mind that I created was my MENU MATH bundle.

This bundle includes addition, subtraction, & multiplication
skills for students to practice their skills in a meaningful way. I use this regularly in my classroom! It includes a fun and colorful “menu” with a variety of different food items listed. Students use the menu to answer a variety of different questions/math problems. My students are SO motivated by Menu Math and it teaches them valuable “real world” math skills. I have had students come in to school after this unit and tell me that they did menu math when their family went out to dinner at a restaurant.

Skills Include:
-Finding items on the Menu
-Addition without regrouping
-Addition with regrouping
-Addition of 2 items
-Addition of 3 items
-Doubling
-Tripling
-Create your own addition problems
-Create your own Story/Word problems
-Money
-Addition of decimals
-Subtraction without regrouping
-Subtraction with regrouping
-Finding the difference between 2 items
-Multi-step story problems (with addition and subtractions)
-Mental Math
-How much more/Less
-Story/Word problems
-Create your own subtraction problems
-Subtraction of decimals
-Multiplication with regrouping
-Doubling
-Tripling
-Multiple step word problems
-Create your own multiplication problems
-Multiplication of decimals