In this ongoing course, learners will take on the role of both the consumer and the operator of a grocery store to learn about 2D/3D shapes, money, tax, weight, perimeter, arrays, sorting, symmetry, patterns, time, tax, temperature, length/width, comparison of numbers, addition, subtraction and much more using an interactive pretend grocery store game in Google Slides! First and second-graders will love learning and practicing math in this virtual grocery store!

At the beginning of class, the learners and teacher will have a discussion about the topic(s) of the week so the teacher can assess prior knowledge of the subject. 

Throughout the class, the teacher will introduce and teach the topic(s) using the “I Do, We Do, You Do” method. This instructional method starts with the teacher giving an example, followed by the teacher and learners solving a problem or completing a task together, then finally, the learners are given a problem or task to complete on their own, with support given as necessary.  

This class is best for learners ages 6 to 8 or at a 1st to 2nd-grade math level. Learners do not need to know the concepts or topics of the class beforehand. We will learn and review in class. 

Because this class is ongoing, learners can enroll at any time. Classes do not build upon each other. 

Materials will be displayed and used in a Google Slide presentation that is screen shared on the teacher's screen only.

If time allows, there will be a review activity at the end of each class. This activity will help the students apply what they have learned in the class. Students should bring something to draw with (pencil, markers, crayons, colored pencils, etc) and something to draw on (white paper, colored paper, white board, etc.).

The topics will rotate according to the schedule below:

**Summer 2024**
“A Day in the Life” Summer Series: Each week, students will take on the role of a different grocery store employee. A list of topics are listed with each role below. The teacher will choose 1-3 concepts to include in the class. 

Week of Jun. 3 - Produce Manager
-Estimate demand based on seasonality.
-Calculate shelf life
-Determine optimal ordering quantity
-Calculate waste and spoilage rates
-Analyze sales data to identify trends in produce purchases
-Calculate the cost of organic vs. non-organic produce
-Estimate the weight of produce for packing and pricing

Week of Jun. 10 - Deli Clerk
-Determine the cost of custom deli platters or sandwiches
-Estimate the amount of time required to prepare deli orders
-Use addition to calculate inventory levels for deli ingredients
-Analyze sales data to identify popular deli items
-Calculate the cost of specialty deli items or imported cheese

Week of Jun. 17 - Bakery Staff
-Introduction to beginning measurement kitchen tools for baking recipes
-Elapsed baking times based on recipe specification
-Determine a sales price for bakery items based on costs
-Practice months of the year and dates to find products expiring soon and then subtract to find discounted prices for “day-old” bakery promotions
-Arrange bakery items in arrays for display
-Add to find total sales and identify the most popular baking products
-Set prices on specialty baking items or custom cakes

Week of Jun. 24  - Butcher
-Calculate costs, sales and profit on meat products
-Subtract to find discounts on bulk meat purchases
-Add to find the cost of custom meat orders
-Create weekly sales based on historical data

Week of Jul. 1 - Assistant Manager
-Practice date and time by creating staff schedules
-Place orders for fast-moving items in the store
-Learn about loss prevention and use subtraction to calculate losses
-Investigate prices at competitor stores and set competitive prices
-Use addition and subtraction to calculate the impact of pricing changes on profit changes and look at how adding or subtracting from one side of the equal sign affects the other (balanced equation)

Week of Jul.  8 - Cashier
-Monitor self-checkout for accuracy, identify discrepancies, calculate errors
-Add the total cost of items in a customer’s order
-Read a coding system to find a SKU or item number
-Calculate loyalty points or rewards earned by customers
-Use spatial awareness and composite shapes to virtually “bag” the customer’s items
-Verify the age of restricted items based on current date and birthdates (NOTE: The restricted items will be age- and school-appropriate: bug spray, lottery tickets, sparklers, craft paint)

Week of Jul. 15 - Stock Clerk
-Read data tables and charts to understand the stocking limits of each shelf. Then, count how many objects are on the shelf already to figure out how many boxes or cases need to be brought from the stockroom to restock the shelf
-Create a data table with the inventory turnover rates to give to your manager so he/she can reorder products
-Calculate/estimate the weight of items for proper and safe stacking
-Remove expired or damaged products and calculate the loss
-Review store ad and upcoming promotions to decide if the store has enough inventory

Week of Jul. 22 - Customer Service Representative
-Add and subtract to find refunds or exchanges for returned items
-Provide estimated wait times for customer inquiries or assistance
-Analyze reports to find availability of products that customers are looking for
-Provide discounts or gift cards for customer complaints or issues

Week of Jul. 29 - Janitor/Custodian/Maintenance
-Estimate the amount of cleaning supplies needed for daily tasks
-Age-appropriate ratios to mix cleaning solution for effective sanitation
-Read management reports and determine frequency of cleaning tasks
-Practice finding elapsed time to complete all cleaning duties
-Add to find the total cost of janitorial supplies
-Add to find waste disposal costs for dumpster rentals or trash removal
-Add to find the estimated cost of maintenance and repairs, subtract to find the difference between the estimate and actual costs.


Week of Aug. 5 - Marketing Manager
-Discuss the different types of advertising - print, digital, commercials
-Learn about and use different statistics to reach the target audience - geography, demographics
-Read data tables and charts to decide on the best place for a print ad or billboard
-Create a marketing budget
-Review months and seasons to discuss seasonal trends and marketing strategies


Week of Aug. 12 - Delivery Driver
-Discuss the role of the delivery driver at a grocery store
-Use skip counting and/or addition to calculate fuel costs, mileage reimbursement and delivery fees
-Create a delivery schedule with delivery times to the hour and half hour
-Check the thermometer inside the delivery truck to ensure the temperature is not too hot or too cold
-Weigh items for delivery and compare the total weight to the maximum load capacity of the truck


Week of Aug. 19 - Nutritionist
-Discuss nutrition and learn key vocabulary: calories, serving size, vitamin, nutrients
-Add to find the total calories of favorite foods and meals
-Compare and contrast favorite foods based on quantitative nutritional data - For example, students will look at two brands of macaroni and cheese. Students will examine the nutritional label on each box. Then, they will add or skip count to find the number of calories in the entire box. Additionally, students will look at the number of vitamins and nutrients in each meal and the amount in each to determine which is the healthier choice. 


Week of Aug. 26 - Review/game


**2024-2025 School Year**

Week of Sept 2 - Geometry: 2D Shapes and Advertisements
-Identify and name 2D shapes
-Recognize 2D shapes in grocery store products and advertisements
-Learn how companies use different shapes to convey messages in advertisements.

Week of Sept 9 - Geometry: 3D Shapes and Sorting
-Identify the 3D shapes of items in the grocery store and sort according to shape;
-Sort and classify grocery items into categories (meat, produce, canned goods, bakery, bread, frozen)

Week of Sept 16 - Measurement: Height
-Learn about how products get to the grocery store (supply chain) and which employees stock the shelves
-Learn about height by reading planograms 
-Create a planogram using appropriate product placement at different heights

Week of Sept 23  - Measurement: Width
-Learn about width by reading planograms
-Disassemble/assemble/reassemble shelving based on total product width
-Width of deli products

Week of Sept 30 - Measurement: Perimeter
-Learn basic definition of perimeter and use skip counting/addition to calculate
-Help the baker decorate around desserts by finding/using perimeter
-Find the perimeter of the breakroom and decorate for an employee's birthday

Week of Oct 7 - Measurement: Intro to Cooking/Baking Measurements
-Understand what a recipe is and what we use it for
-Practice choosing the right-sized container of ingredient to purchase at the store

Week of Oct 14 - Skip Counting: Total Price and Total Weight
-How to read a produce scale
-Calculate the total price by skip counting/addition
-Calculate the total weight by skip counting/addition

Week of Oct 21 - Skip Counting: Total Price/Cost and Tax
-How to read a deli scale
-Use a scale to find the weight of deli items
-Calculate the total bag tax by skip counting

Week of Oct 28 - Patterns
-Practice completing repeating patterns
-Identify patterns in real-life and every day objects
-Understand and create patterns in the florist dept.

Week of Nov 4 - Symmetry
-Determine if a display is symmetrical or not symmetrical, and explain why/why not
-Create symmetrical end-cap or special displays

Week of Nov 11 - Arrays
-Packaging bakery items into an array
-Finding and creating patterns of an array
-Finding other patterns in the grocery store

Week of Nov 18 - Time: To the Hour, To the Half-Hour
-Read an analog and digital clock to determine operating hours of the store
-Read clocks, tell time, calculate elapsed time around the grocery store (florist, bakery, pharmacy)
-Create an employee schedule as the manager of the store using time and data tables
-Compare numbers to sort employees into "part-time" and "full-time" employees.

Week of Nov 25 - Calendar: Months of the Year
-Learn/practice saying the 12 months of the year in the correct order
-Learn how to read expiration and "best by" dates on products
-Use the FIFO method to practice chronological order, dates (day, month, year)

Week of Dec 2 - Calendar: Seasons, Months and Holidays
-Learn 12 months and 4 seasons of the year
-Describe familiar holidays in different months
-Ensure seasonal items will be in stock when customers will need/want/purchase them

Week of Dec 9 - Money: Bills
-Identify bills and their values
-Find the price of an item
-Skip count and/or add to find the total price of multiple items
-Make exact amounts using bills

Week of Dec 16 - Money: Coins
-Identify coins and their values
-Find the price of an item 
-Skip count and/or add to find the total price of multiple items 
-Make exact amounts using coins

Week of Dec 23 - Money: Sales
-Review of bills, coins, and their values
-Learn about sales ads and sale prices
-Analyze sales and compare non-sale prices to practice being a smart consumer

Week of Dec 30 - Money: Coupons
-Review of bills, coins, and their values
-Learning about coupons and how to use them correctly
-Find the change/difference using subtraction

Week of Jan 6 - Money: Find the Total (“Let’s Go Shopping!)
-Make exact amount using bills and coins
-Order prices from greatest to least and least to greatest
-Choose items to purchase to stay under budgeted amount
-Use subtraction to make change

Week of Jan 13 - Compare Numbers and Money
-Compare number of items in your cart to the express lane (“12 items or less”) requirements
-Vocabulary: “or less”, “about”, “approximately”
-Understand the difference between “# items or less” vs. “About # items”
-Practice shopper etiquette using the express lane
-Compare prices of items

Week of Jan 20 - Compare Temperatures using Data Tables
-Read thermometer to check temperature of the deli, freezers, refrigerator, dairy aisle, etc.
-Using a data table to record and analyze data

Week of Jan 27 -

Week of Feb 3 - Place Value
-Group items into tens and ones to count inventory around the store. 

Week of Feb 10 - Vocabulary and Math Keywords
-Learn about math-related vocabulary words such as "price", "total", "sale" and "quantity" and how to use them as keywords to determine which math operation to use

Week of Feb 17 - Solve Problems
-Use problem-solving strategies such as making a model, writing an equation, looking for a pattern, and drawing a picture to help us solve common problems as the consumer/customer at the grocery store. 
-For example, "If a pack of 8 granola bars is priced $4.00, but is marked “Buy One Get One Free”, how much will you save if you buy two packs of granola bars?" 

Week of Feb 24 - Data: Graph and Charts
-Discuss the words "graph", "chart" and "analyze"
-Examine bar charts, tally charts and pie graphs, analyze each one and answer questions based on each. 
-For example, analyzing a bar graph titled "Weekly Produce Sales" to determine how many bananas were sold and what produce is selling the best. Also, examining a tally chart to determine inventory and what items need to be ordered, and learning about how a pie chart can show us brand preference. 

Week of Mar 3 - Estimation and Rounding
-Discuss and understand the difference between "estimation" and "guess"
-Use simple rounding to estimate the cost of items and the total of their purchase
-For example, the students will be shown a picture of red peppers with a price sign that says "99 cents each". Students will be asked, "About how much does one red pepper cost? About how much will three red peppers cost?". 
-In another example, students will be shown the price of milk: $3.69. Students will round this to the nearest dollar or half-dollar (depending on the student's level), and then will be asked follow-up questions, such as, "Using only estimation, can I buy 2 gallons of milk with a $10 bill?"

Week of Mar 10 - “Check Your Receipt!”
-Understand the purpose of a receipt and the information that can be typically found on a receipt
-Understand many reasons why consumers and customers should always check their receipt after making a purchase 
-Check several different given receipts, determine if there are any inaccuracies, identify the inaccuracies, describe how customer service might correct the error, explain what a reasonable outcome/resolution might be
-Discuss the importance of understanding laws of your state. (For example, the “Get One Free” law in Connecticut.)
-If time allows, create a robot or computer program that can help a store overcome pricing errors or mistakes


Due to popular demand, topics will continue to be added and updated throughout the Summer 2024. 

Once topics have been cycled through, we will begin again. Occasionally, new topics will be added to the rotation.