Percentages Project Based Learning Run a Halloween Factory | Math PBL Enrichment

This Printable & Digital Percents Math Project (EDITABLE) is a perfect Halloween or Fall math activity. Use this project in your classroom to have your students incorporate critical thinking, and real-life Halloween math in a fun way.

Students will run their own Halloween Factory. They have to make many important decisions to have as much profit as possible.

Students can choose without analyzing and then see the different effects. More ambitious students may first consider options before making choices.

You can use this project as one large project or divide it into 2 parts (factory production & magic potion).

This download includes both a printable (PDF) and digital Google Slides™/PowerPoint™ version.

This project covers:

Part 1 - factory production

- percent of change problems

- percent increases and decreases

- finding the whole, given the part and percent

- finding the part, given the percent and whole

- converting fractions, decimals and percentages

- multi-digit addition, subtraction, and multiplication (including decimals)

- money management

Part 2 - magic potion

- finding the percent, given the part and whole

- finding the part, given the percent and whole

- markup and discount calculations

- percent increase

- multi-digit addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication (including decimals)

- money management

This resource includes:

- The editable digital version in Google Slides™.

- The editable PowerPoint™ version.

- The printable version in PDF (color).

- The printable version in PDF (black & white).

- An example of a completed project.

- The Grading Rubric.

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