Students will enter the grocery budget investigation by experiencing a fast team challenge with real price cards, hearing a community-based problem prompt, and beginning to document how unit rates, ratios, and teamwork can help design a best-value basket under a limited budget.

Students will test early best-value ideas with grocery items and price cards, use unit rates and ratio evidence to notice patterns, and turn that curiosity into a focused investigable question and testable hypothesis for their team’s grocery budget investigation.

Students will co-design a clear grocery basket investigation method, document how they will calculate and track evidence, and improve their plan through peer and teacher feedback before moving into full analysis.

Students will analyze grocery investigation evidence, compare unit-rate patterns across basket options, revise their conclusions after peer and teacher feedback, and prepare a concise grocery pitch with a final slide about math growth, budgeting challenges, and teamwork.

Students will present their best-value grocery basket investigation to classmates and a grocery store partner, defend their unit-rate and budget decisions with evidence, and complete a brief final reflection slide about math growth, budgeting challenges, and teamwork.