Math is Real Life! {July}

I’m joining up again with 4mulafun, The Teacher Studio, Miss Math Dork, and Teaching to Inspire in 5th for the Math is Real Life Linky!

This month, I want to share a little secret with the bloggy world. Those who are closest to me have all witnessed this confession. I am an addict. It’s hard to admit. My math post today is to share how my addiction relates to math and puts a financial strain on my family.

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It’s just a polar pop, what were you thinking?!?! 🙂 Just kidding. My husband says I’m an addict…..I’m still in denial.

Just for fun, I decided that I would use my love for Diet Coke in a real life math problem! During the school year, I stopped for a Polar Pop each and every day on my way to school. The morning shift ladies at the local Circle K know me by name! I stopped in the other day and the manager said she missed seeing me every morning and that a couple of the girls had been worried about me. Pathetic, huh?

Take a look at this math:

180 days of school x $0.85 per Polar Pop = $153!

Oh my goodness! Want to know the scary part? That doesn’t count all of the times that I stopped ON MY WAY HOME! I don’t stop every afternoon, but at least two days a week. Or the times when I would head to work in my room on a Saturday…..or during the breaks…..Ahhh! I have to calculating…..it makes me depressed… 🙂