Smoothie Stand Tycoon


What’s inside:

  • Part 1 ยท Set Your Smoothie Price โ€” a live y = kx graph with a price slider; the table, equation, and gold unit-rate point (1, k) all update together. The $3 delivery fee toggle turns the line gold, lifts it off the origin, and the caption explains exactly why proportionality just broke.
  • Part 2 ยท Proportional or Not? โ€” random tables from three generators (true proportional, constant-difference trap, hidden-fee trap). Students commit before the reveal, then a gold y รท x ratio row appears in the table showing the evidence.
  • Part 3 ยท Three Tycoon Machines โ€” โš–๏ธ Unit Rate Machine accepts decimals, fractions (1/2), and mixed numbers (1 1/2), shows the “flip the fraction” reciprocal step, and gives both unit rates; ๐Ÿงพ Checkout Machine walks discount โ†’ tax โ†’ tip, each on its correct base, with the “never mash percents together” warning; ๐Ÿฆ Savings Machine does I = pยทrยทt with the percent-to-decimal step called out.
  • Part 4 ยท Quiz โ€” 10 questions spanning 7.RP.1 (complex unit rates), 7.RP.2 (tables, origin rule, k, y = kx, meaning of (1, r)), and 7.RP.3 (interest, discount+tax, percent change, increase-then-decrease). Four result tiers with tag-based routing back to the exact Part.

Misconception coverage summary: Questions 1 and 5 target division-direction errors โ€” multiplying instead of dividing by a fraction, flipping xรทy for yรทx when finding rates and k โ€” while Question 6’s distractors add the same reversal at the equation level (x = 4y, y = 4รทx). Questions 3, 4, and 6 target proportionality traps: constant difference mistaken for constant ratio, “any straight line is proportional,” and irrelevant features like steepness or direction, with Question 7 handling reversed coordinates and misreading (1, r) as a fee. Questions 2, 8, 9, and 10 target percent traps: forgetting to convert 5% to 0.05, mashing percents into one blob (25% โˆ’ 8%), dividing percent change by the new value instead of the original, and believing +20% then โˆ’20% cancels out.


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