Grade 5 · The Numbers Year · Week 4

Margin

The gap between price and cost, and that gap as a share of the price.

This game goes with week 4 of the workbook. Do the page first; the game is for seeing the numbers move. Nothing you type is kept.

Fill the table

The card is done for you: price $4.00, cost $2.60, so the margin is $1.40, and $1.40 out of $4.00 is 35 out of 100. Do the other three.

Bracelet: price $3.00, cost $1.00

Bag: price $5.00, cost $4.00

Badge: price $2.00, cost $0.50

Rank them two ways

RankBy dollarsBy share
1 (best)
2
3
4

The two rankings are not the same. The page asks you to say why, and which one you would trust.

Try your own

Price $ and cost $

Margin $1.40, which is 35 out of every 100 cents the customer hands you.

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

Other weeks with a game: 2 Two Kinds of Cost, 5 Break Even, 6 The Price Ladder, 9 Four Products, One Table, 22 Your Break-Even, In Units, 23 The Forecast, 24 The Business Plan, 33 Change One Thing, 35 Did It Work?. All games.