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Family Kitchen: The Weekly Order Ledger

Students interpret opposite quantities in a family restaurant's weekly orders and explain when changes combine to make zero.

Grade 7MathInteractive · Printable

Aligned to7.NS.A.1.a

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  • 1 Common Core standard
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  • 13 questions
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Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 7
Subject
Math
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students identify opposite changes that combine to make zero in weekly order records.
  • Students determine missing signed quantities that cancel recorded changes.
  • Students explain what zero net change means in a real-world situation.

How to use

Use after introducing opposite numbers. Have students identify the quantity being tracked before answering, then discuss the final ledger explanation.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

7.NS.A.1.a

Describe situations where opposite quantities combine to make 0, like gaining and then losing the same amount.

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Family Kitchen: The Weekly Order Ledger

Interpret opposite changes in orders, deliveries, and payments.

Read the Order Records

The Rivera family's restaurant records increases as positive and decreases as negative. Track the quantity named in each question.

1.
These are the only changes to Friday's dinner order. What does their sum describe?
Friday Dinner Order
RequestChange in dinners
Add dinners+17
Cancel dinners−17
  • A. The order has the same dinner count as before.
  • B. The order now contains exactly zero dinners.
  • C. The order increased by a total of 34 dinners.
  • D. The order now contains exactly 17 dinners.
2.
A customer cancels some lunch boxes, then restores all of them. The two changes combine to make zero.
Lunch Box Requests
RequestChange in boxes
Cancel?
Restore+23

What was the signed change for the cancellation?   lunch boxes

3.
The restaurant charges a customer $36 for an extra order, then refunds the full $36 when that extra order is canceled. Which equation models the net change in money collected?
  • A. +36 + 0 = 36
  • B. +36 + (−36) = 0
  • C. +36 + 36 = 72
  • D. −36 + (−36) = −72

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