This product is intended to be used in a classroom modeled after Peter Liljedahl’s book Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics. This product is a day’s lesson or two days depending on your class's needs.

Launch Script: This is the mini lesson. It should be quick, 10 minutes.

Consolidation: Wrap up the lesson after these tasks. This is like a second mini lesson. Have students gather around and possibly walk the room to show varying strategies used by classmates.

Notes: This page is intended to be printed for students to write on and glue into journals or hole punched for a notebook.

Check Your Understanding: Students complete so the teacher can check to

see what the student does or does not understand. It is meant to go in a certain order so that you, the teacher, know where a student begins to struggle – A, B, C, D, etc. – down each column of Mild, Medium, Spicy.

In the calculating profits task cards students will be utilizing their critical thinking skills to solve for profit with the formula INCOME - EXPENSES = PROFIT. There are 24 task cards with a student recording sheet and teacher answer key.

These are task cards: They can be laminated or paper copy to write on, table scoot, homework, game board cards, or team problem solving. They can also be used in a building thinking classroom. There are three types of questions which are marked in the bottom right corner with a snap cube. One snap cube is a type one (mild) question – mental adding numbers on the smaller end, two snap cubes is a type two (medium) question – bigger mental numbers but not in 5s or 10s, and three snap cubes is a type three (spicy) question – prices with decimals. There are so many options to use them with. There is a free game board located in my store, Sprout & Thrive.