Real World Math! Create a Dog Boarding Business

In this class students will apply their computational skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to purchase equipment and calculate payroll and revenue to determine profitability of their dog boarding business. In addition, the students will calculate area and create a scaled blueprint of their business on graph paper. Students will also have the opportunity to calculate percentages as they will be getting a loan for their business and have to pay interest. This is real world math! Finally, if time allows, we will create a name, slogan and logo for our dog boarding business. 
The students should have experience with adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing but do not need to be proficient in all skills as we will work together to create the business. The class will be interactive as the students will be engaged in setting their own prices for services, calculating profit and creating the blueprint for the business.