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Project Big Mac
Taking a bite out of the world economy

Project Big Mac was conducted during May of 2006. There were submissions from 23 US states, 7 different countries, and 4 different continents.
The general idea of the Big Mac project was to look at it as a specific "basket of goods" that, in an ideal case, could be bought in each country with the "relatively" same amount of money. This way, Big Mac was treated as some kind of world currency...

IMORS realized the project together with the students and teachers from Belgrade elementary school "Baruch Brothers", from 8th May to 2nd June 2006. One class was engaged directly in the project (15 students participated actively) and teachers of several subjects (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, English, Technical and Computer science).
Our main task was to check the prices of a Big Mac in all McDonald's restaurants in Belgrade (nine of them), to compare them mutually, to convert prices to US dollars and to send report about it via the project's web page.

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We chose to do few more activities in the project. Students wanted to know does every Big Mac in every restaurant have the same weight, so they bought a Big Mac in every Mac restaurant in Belgrade and measure each of them.

Educational, logistic and technical support we got from Creative Accelerated Learning Lab (CALL).