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1. "Give" students $20 to spend using the advertisements. They much end up with less than $1.00 in change left. Award the student with the least amount of change remaining.

2. Cut words from the paper that relate to quantity. For example: all, most, some, none, few, less, most.

3. Have students select items from the newspaper that they would like to own of buy for others on special days such as Mothers Day, Fathers Day & Christmas. Have them figure the total cost of the items, including sales tax.

4. Find the following math-related items in the paper: fraction, decimal, average, percentage, ratio.

5. Have students locate 10 items for sales in newspaper ads. Have them figure the difference between the regular price and the sale price and the percent of savings.

6. Give students the price per word and per day for classified advertisements in the newspaper. Have them compute the cost of various ads for various lengths of time.

7. Give students one page of the paper. Using a ruler, have them find out the percentage of space for ads, pictures, stories and headlines.

8. Have students double or halve the yield of recipes printed in the newspaper by increasing or decreasing the ingredients used.

9. Get students to find a grocery ad with a soft drink advertisement. Have them figure out how many fluid ounces are in the six pack, twelve packand break it down into pints, quarts, gallons and liters.

10. Have students identify a new car or house advertised in the paper that they would like to own. Have them establish what they might pay as a down payment and then calculate the balance due and monthly payments using prevailing interest rates.

11. Have students compute and compare interest rates from newspaper ads for banks and savings & loan associations.

12. Have students identify classified ads that list both price and square footage for three houses for sale. Have students compute the price per square foot for each house.

13. Have students examine ads in a current newspaper and in a newspaper printed five or 10 years ago. Compare the cost of selected items and compute the percent of change.

14. Have students pick some favorite stocks in the newspaper. Have them follow these stocks and chart their rise and fall.

15. In the entertainment section, have students plan an evening with a friend. Determine the total cost of the outing.