5th Grade Math PBL – Ice Cream Truck Project Based Learning

5th Grade Math PBL – Ice Cream Truck Project Based Learning

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Ice Cream Truck Mania: Math Project Based Learning – 5th Grade

Get ready for a sweet and exciting math PBL adventure with our 5th grade Ice Cream Truck Project-Based Learning! This print-and-go PBL is designed to engage and challenge fourth graders. Students will use their math skills to run their very own ice cream truck business.

 

You have been hired to run an ice cream truck! It is your job to stock the ice cream truck with tasty treats, keep track of the money you earned, and serve delicious ice cream to the community in a timely manner!

 

Through a series of fun and interactive activities, students will:

  • Use order of operations and multiplication and division word problems to determine the ice cream supply
  • Use time to create a schedule for their truck stops
  • Solve measurement word problems involving mass with fractions and decimals
  • Compare ice cream cone masses with fractions
  • Use scaled pictographs and bar graphs to answer questions about their truck stops

 

With this activity, students will develop essential math skills like problem-solving,multiplication and division, time, measurement, fractions, decimals, and graphing- all while having fun and satisfying their sweet tooth. Whether you’re a teacher looking for an engaging math activity for your classroom or a parent looking for a fun way to support your child’s math learning at home, our Ice Cream Truck Project-Based Learning resource will have your students solving realistic math problems in an engaging way.

 

⭐Students evaluate their work with a self-evaluation rubric and response.

 

⭐ Additional “challenge activities” engage students and develop further understanding of the concepts and skills.

 

⭐ This 5th grade spring math activity incorporates the following math standards:

  • 5.OA.A.1 Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols.
  • 5.NBT.A.3.B Compare two decimals to thousandths based on the meanings of the digits in each place.
  • 5.NBT.B.5 Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
  • 5.NBT.B.6 Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors.
  • 5.NF.B.4 Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole number by a fraction.
  • 5.NF.B.6 Solve real-world problems involving multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers.
  • 5.MD.A.1 Convert among different-sized standard measurement units within a given measurement system.
  • 5.MB.B.2 Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit.

 

What Teachers are Saying:

Exactly what I was looking for! A wonderful resource.” – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

 

Key Features:

✏️ Low Prep – Print-and-go format makes this resource quick to prep. and use. You do not need to spend money on extra supplies or hours of time prepping for this PBL!

 

✏️ Printable & Digital Format – Printable PDF & Google Slides formats make this resource perfect for any classroom. Digital and printable versions are consistent, so they can be used for combination print and virtual stations.

 

✏️ Educational & Engaging – This resource will capture the imagination of your students while they practice key math skills. Students are tasked to run their own ice cream truck to practice 5th grade math standards problems.

 

✏️ Differentiation – Three challenge activities mean that you can challenge your high-performing students while making the resource accessible to your on-level and below-level students.

 

What’s Included?

This ice cream truck themed 5th grade math activity contains the following:

  1. Teacher Directions & Standards Addressed
  2. Student Directions
  3. Ice Cream Supply (Order of Operations, Word Problems)
  4. Ice Cream Truck Stop Schedule (Time)
  5. Measuring Ice Cream (Mass, Comparing Decimals)
  6. Hungry Customers (Interpreting & Representing Data)
  7. Challenge #1: Ice Cream Sizes (Measurement)
  8. Challenge #2: Ice Cream Flavors (Word Problems)
  9. Challenge #3: Toppings Galore (Word Problems)
  10. Self-Reflection
  11. Self-Evaluation
  12. Answer Key

 

Take a closer look at what this escape room looks like in this video preview.

 

Check out the 4th Grade version of this spring math PBL!

 

Copyright & Terms of Use

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