Students will conduct interviews with local supermarket staff to understand how they set and manage pricing, discounts, and taxes, capturing insights through note-taking and photographs for use in their budgeting calculations.

Students will synthesize their research from the Interactive Budget Challenge and the supermarket field visit, drafting an actionable problem statement to guide their calculations and project development, ensuring they incorporate essential questions around optimizing spending through mathematical concepts.

Students will brainstorm a range of innovative meal plans based on actual supermarket discounts and sales tax rates, using these ideas to inspire diverse, real-world applications of their math skills in optimizing budget allocations.

Students will develop and refine digital shopping scenarios by applying percentage, discount, and sales tax calculations, creating mock shopping receipts, and modifying their plans based on peer feedback in preparation for the 'Savvy Shopper Expo'.

Students will finalize their digital presentations, showcasing their calculations and strategies for budgeting, discounts, and sales tax, and present them during the 'Savvy Shopper Expo' to an audience of peers, teachers, and parents, receiving feedback and reflecting on their learning.