Grade 5 · The Numbers Year · Week 6

The Price Ladder

Every price is a bet: fewer sales at more each, or more sales at less each.

This game goes with week 6 of the workbook. Do the page first; the game is for seeing the numbers move. Nothing you type is kept.

Cost is $1.20 an item, and there are no fixed costs. Pick a price and see what that rung of the ladder does.

Read your own table

Which price brings in the most money?

Which price makes the most profit?

Try every rung before you answer, or you are guessing.

The workbook: The Numbers Year (free PDF). The teacher guide: answers and watch-fors.

Other weeks with a game: 2 Two Kinds of Cost, 4 Margin, 5 Break Even, 9 Four Products, One Table, 22 Your Break-Even, In Units, 23 The Forecast, 24 The Business Plan, 33 Change One Thing, 35 Did It Work?. All games.