Grade 3 · The Choosing Year · Week 17

Saving Takes Weeks

The goal, the amount you can put aside, and the number of weeks between them.

This game goes with week 17 of the workbook. Do the page first; the game is for seeing the numbers move. Nothing you type is kept.

How many weeks?

Row a is done for you: $24 at $3 a week is 8 weeks.

Row b: $40 at $5 a week. WeeksRow c: $18 at $2 a week. WeeksRow d: $64 at $4 a week. WeeksRow e: $25 at $5 a week. Weeks

Row d takes the longest. To get it in half the time:

What each week would have to be$ That is more each week by$

The challenge

$30 at $4 a week. WeeksLeft over at the end$

Your own goal

A goal of $ and $ a week.

8 weeks. It divides exactly.

One bar is one week. Three ways to make it shorter: put in more each week, pick a smaller goal, or wait longer. There is no fourth.

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