By Merricks White
merrickswhite@aol.com
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Introduction |
Task |
Process |
Evaluation |
Conclusion |
Introduction
GA State football team is in the sugar
bowl and you
are having a party. You are allowed to invite 50 people over for your
party.
Your parents are giving you $300.00 to buy anything you need for your
party.
Don’t spend all the money on useless things!
When you are through with this Webquest you should be able to answer the following questions.
1. How do
you subtract how much money you spent, from how much money you have?
2. How does this
Webquest relate to the real World?
3. How do you include
tax in your total cost?
Task
In this math webquest you will have to
Add and
Subtract decimals for a party you are throwing for GA State football
game. You are
allowed to invite 50 people and you only have $300.00. Everyone in the
party
must have enough food, drinks, etc., for whatever you are buying. You
must be
able to Add and Subtract decimals, if you want to understand this task.
You are
not allowed to go over your budget of $300.00. Also include tax with
every
total and the tax is 7%.
Use this activity sheet to record what you do on this webquest.
1. This is a website to help you understand the buying of Simple things. Play until you get the concept of money in a business.
Money Quiz
2. Click
on the money box and that will help you understand the meaning of
money. Take
the quiz. If you don’t get any wrong, then go onto problem 4 but if you
got
some wrong then do it over until you get all of them right. If you got
all of
them right and you feel like you don’t get it, then play the game 4-5
times
3. Here
are some adding
and subtracting problems with decimals.
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40.75
+22.98
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8.89
-7.98 |
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8.97
+6.43 |
100.88
-76.89 |
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42.55
+24.55 |
99.99 -1.99 |
4.
When
you get
to this game on the website click on Crab Race. Pretend you have 10,000
dollars
to use for bet money at this race. The object of the game is to bet on
the crab
that you think will win. Play the game until you get it or you don’t
have any
money left to bet on crabs.
5. Here
is the
thing to make sure you know everything that this Webquest
is about. When you click on this link do the activities for adding and
subtracting. Do the activity as many times as you need to or until you
get 100%
average. Make sure NOT to press enter or it will restart your game.
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Rubric!!!!!!! |
Poor 1 |
Developing 2 |
Accomplished 3 |
Exemplary 4 |
Score |
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Finding the Definition
of Adding and Subtracting |
Doesn’t even bother to
search and see what it means and doesn’t record the answer |
Writes the wrong
definition but kind of close and doesn’t record the answer |
Writes
something close to the right answer and writes something close to the
right answer |
Writes the correct
definition for adding and subtracting, also records the definition on
the answer sheet |
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Playing Lemonade Stand |
Doesn’t even try and
play the game and doesn’t record on the answer sheet |
Barely even tries the
game and doesn’t record what happened on the answer sheet |
Plays the game but
doesn’t fill out the sheet |
Plays the game and
records it on the answer sheet |
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Answering Problems |
Doesn’t
even try the problems and doesn’t record it on the answer sheet |
Only does a few
problems and gets them wrong |
Tries the problems and
records the wrong answers |
Records all the answers
and gets all the problems right |
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Crab Race Game |
Doesn’t play the game |
Tries the game but
doesn’t finish it |
Does the game but
doesn’t record it on the answer sheet |
Plays the game and
records what happens on the answer sheet |
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Number Monster game |
Doesn’t play the game |
Tries the game but
doesn’t finish it and doesn’t record what happened on the answer sheet |
Plays the game but
doesn’t record on the answer sheet |
Plays the game and
records what happened on the answer sheet |
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If
you are reading this you are at the end of this math webquest. I hope
you have
learned something from this webquest. Hopefully you now know how to add
and
subtract in a fun way. Hope this webquest has taught you something
about adding
and subtracting.