The Cost of School
Background/Introduction:
You are a parent with three children. Your youngest, Wilhelmina, is in fourth grade. Bill, your middle child is a boy in seventh grade. Your oldest child, William, is a sophomore boy in high school. William will be taking Algebra this school year and likes to drink an extra milk with lunch. Both boys, Bill and William, will be participating in school sports and the family would like to go watch them compete. Times have been tough and you may qualify for Free and Reduced Lunch, but it is the beginning of August and those applications have not been processed at this time.
Your Task:
Determine how much it will cost to get all of the school supplies required for all three of your children, pay the school fees, and feed your kids with one full week of lunches.
Procedure:
You are a parent with three children. Your youngest, Wilhelmina, is in fourth grade. Bill, your middle child is a boy in seventh grade. Your oldest child, William, is a sophomore boy in high school. William will be taking Algebra this school year and likes to drink an extra milk with lunch. Both boys, Bill and William, will be participating in school sports and the family would like to go watch them compete. Times have been tough and you may qualify for Free and Reduced Lunch, but it is the beginning of August and those applications have not been processed at this time.
Your Task:
Determine how much it will cost to get all of the school supplies required for all three of your children, pay the school fees, and feed your kids with one full week of lunches.
Procedure:
- Make a chart on Word, Xcel, Google Docs, or Google Sheets with the information for each child indicating the following: Supplies, District Fees, Activity Tkt, Lunch, and a Total.
- Include on your chart an addition problem adding the totals for Wilhelmina, Bill, William and the cost of the Parent Activity Tkt - this will give a grand total cost of schooling.
- Use the supply lists and fee sheets located on the resource page in addition to information from local stores (Walmart, Dollar General, Dollar Tree) and/or the internet to complete your chart.
- Write a short (2-3 paragraph) reflection about this process and what you discovered.
- Submit document containing spreadsheet with dollar values for each child and area, the addition problem totaling all of the costs (+ parent activity tkt), and your reflection to Moodle.