I’m excited to share with you some ideas for tax, tips, and discount activities for your math classroom. If you’re looking for ideas on how to plan for teaching this topic, you can read more here. Teaching tax, tips, and discounts is a great topic for activities because it’s a real world topic from top to bottom. And 7th grade students get great review with proportions in real world applications. The activities in this post are excellent for independent practice, bell ringers, anticipatory sets, homework, math centers, etc.