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Lemonade Stand

Valeria R.
Age
13
Elmhurst, Illinois
Math principle(s) learned:
Unit pricing
Addition
Subtraction
Idea details:

I really think math is everywhere. Over the summer I enjoy selling lemonade with my friends. To have a lemonade stand you need to use a lot of math. The fist place where we use math is at the store when we have to figure out how much is each lemon, the cubes of sugar, the ice cubes and the cups. Most of the time we need to figure out the unit price in order to spend less money. we buy the amount of material according to the weather. The weather plays a big role in our small business because we change the price of per cup according to weather.

For example, if is really hot outside we use more ice and we have to raise the prices, and if is not too hot we lower the amount of ice and sell the cups of lemonade cheaper, but we have to watch that we also earn a profit. As you can see we use math in the store, we use math according to weather, we use math to figure out the price of each cup of lemonade, we use math to figure out our profit, we use math everywhere.