Grade 5 · The Numbers Year · Week 22

Your Break-Even, In Units

The number that decides whether your plan is sensible or a wish.

This game goes with week 22 of the workbook. Do the page first; the game is for seeing the numbers move. Nothing you type is kept.

The warm-up: fixed costs $21.00, margin $1.75 each.

Your own number

Total fixed costs (week 20) $

Margin on product 1 $ and on product 2 $

Fixed costs divided by margin, not by price. Nothing you type here is kept anywhere.

The workbook: The Numbers Year (free PDF). The teacher guide: answers and watch-fors.

Other weeks with a game: 2 Two Kinds of Cost, 4 Margin, 5 Break Even, 6 The Price Ladder, 9 Four Products, One Table, 23 The Forecast, 24 The Business Plan, 33 Change One Thing, 35 Did It Work?. All games.