Grade 5 · The Numbers Year · Week 5

Break Even

How many you must sell before you have made a single cent.

This game goes with week 5 of the workbook. Do the page first; the game is for seeing the numbers move. Nothing you type is kept.

Fixed costs $ are already spent. Each sale brings a margin of $ .

Sales so far: 0. Where you stand: -$24.00

Each box is one sale, up to sixty. Orange sales are paying back the fixed costs. Green sales are profit.

Work these out

Fixed $18.00, margin $0.90: break even atFixed $30.00, margin $2.50: break even atFixed $12.50, margin $0.50: break even atFixed $20.00, margin $1.50: it does not divide evenly, so round up toThe sign challenge: a $3.00 sign instead of $9.00, margin $1.50. Break even falls by

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, 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.