Melinda Brown, a math teacher at Westfield Middle School, recently took her seventh-grade algebra class to the real world to learn some math, budgeting and charity all in one assignment. To start, her classes collected donations to purchase clothes and gifts for families in need. Thanks to the kindness of the Westfield community, they raised more than $2,700! Brown gave them all a portion of the collections, a shopping list and a budget and took the students to Target to shop for a couple of Hamilton County families who were identified by the Good Samaritan Network. After shopping, they had to complete a math project based on unit rates and percent change.
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