This fantastic freebie is a great resource for Common Core Standards for 5th and 6th grade.
Students calculate the cost of a family's Christmas tree and decorations. Using decimal multiplication, students will first find the cost of all of the decorations using a product page containing pictures and prices. Students will also calculate discounts after being given a list of coupons. Finally, students will finish the activity by finding the final cost of the decorations, after the discounts, with sales tax.
This is a great activity to provide real world problem solving.
ANSWER KEY INCLUDED.
Common Core Standards
5.NBT.7 Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths
6.NS.3 Fluently add, subtract, multiply, and divide multi?digit decimals using the standard algorithm for each operation.