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Adult education applied math projects
High School Financial Literacy MEGA Bundle: Personal Finance Worksheets
Everything you need to teach your high school students about all aspects of personal finance and financial literacy in fun and visually-appealing lessons, activities, and games. These personal finance worksheets and activities cover important skills such as income taxes and tax refunds, budgeting, credit scores, debt, and saving for retirement. You know when people say, "Why didn't they teach us that in school?" These are the lessons to remedy that!These lessons are perfect for career and person
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Renting vs. Buying: Financial Literacy Lesson (mortgage, interest, down payment)
People often say renting is “Throwing away money.” Is that always the case? Why doesn’t everyone just buy a home? This personal financial literacy lesson allows students to think critically about this issue and complete local research to enhance their understanding. This activity starts with a two-page handout that walks students through the basic vocabulary and concepts of home-buying:- down payment- mortgage: principal vs interest (with sample amortization schedule)- property taxes, condo fees
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7th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Life Skills Bundle: Career, Budget, Emails, Renting, Taxes and more!
Solving Linear Equations Project Based Learning Math Activity Buy your First Car
Get students hyped about solving linear equations while planning the purchase of their first car! Drive into a real world math activity that students can connect to their personal need for transportation. This low prep math activity is a win-win for students and teachers alike. The First Car Mastery Task guides students in using variables, tables, and equations to calculate and analyze the purchase price, the value, and depreciation of their first car. Students will discover the value of negati
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7th - 11th, Adult Education
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Income Tax Activity- Personal Finance Worksheets: Practice Doing Realistic Taxes
How many times have you heard someone say, "I wish they taught me how to do taxes in school!” Now you can make sure that your students get this important information in a developmentally-appropriate and engaging financial literacy lesson.- This comprehensive package includes a note-taking sheet with 10 questions (answers included) for your students to learn the basics about personal income taxes. (What are they, why do we pay them, when are they due, what are progressive taxes, and more.)- Then,
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
Financial Literacy Activities & Projects STARTER BUNDLE
This bundle provides teachers with the foundation for Financial Literacy - checking, savings, monthly budgets, credit cards and earning statements. It's a perfect start to financial literacy education for any classroom!Teaching personal finance and consumer math to middle and high school students can be difficult because the amount of quality resources that are practical and relevant are hard to find. Schools need to do a better job of teaching students to be financially literate and better cons
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Real Life Math: Menus, Grocery, Clothing, Sporting Goods Shopping
Real Life Math contains four teaching Units. Menus, Grocery Shopping, Online Clothing Shopping, and Online Sporting Goods Shopping. I teach Life Skills as part of my academic curriculum. My students often transition from high school into an independent living setting. As I teach throughout the year, I strive to teach independent living skills across the curriculum. For our students it is more important than ever that they have consumer math skills. Real Life Math: provides lesson plans on
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
Project: Buying a Home
This is the project I end our Financial Literacy course with each year. After studying the factors that go into purchasing a house, students are given this PowerPoint document to lead them through their own simulation of finding and purchasing a home.
Students must decide what is important to them in purchasing a home, work within a provided budget, and find an actual home for sale that best fits their values.
This PowerPoint walks students through identifying the many key costs that purchasi
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6th - 12th, Adult Education
High School Financial Literacy Bundle (2 projects, 1 game, 1 free lesson)
This bundle includes my best-selling Household Budget Project that gets students thinking about income, student debt, income tax, bills, housing, transportation and more! The Credit Score Board Game teaches students how to build a strong credit score when using credit cards, student loans, mortgages and more, and is lots of fun to play. Finally, teach your students how to do their Income Taxes, with a colourful, interactive project that includes three people, their tax slips, and a simplified ta
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Book About Hands-On Financial Literacy Simulations for Teens & Young Adults
These simulations come from Nick's book, "You're Gonna Need a Bigger Wallet." The book is available on Amazon for $24, or on TPT for $21 in .pdf format. The .pdf format is more ideal for teachers than the printed copies of the book because it allows for easier access to print the activities and handouts.
"You're Gonna Need a Bigger Wallet" is geared towards teachers and organizations who desire to teach personal finance skills in engaging and practical ways. Several industry experts contribute
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Math in the Real World Project
Math in the Real World Project helps you answer the question, “When are we ever going to need this in life?” This is one of my favorite real world math projects! This math in the real world project is the perfect way to get your students to work collaboratively, use their creativity, practice their math skills, and learn what it’s like to live in The Real World. You can use this project during ANY time of the school year, you can use it in ANY math, business or life-skills class. Everything is r
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Create Your Own Statistics Project
This document contains a statistics project description that allows students to create their own project. This is suitable for high school and beginning level college statistics class. Students will design their own study - formulate research questions, collect data, organize and summarize the findings, calculate confidence interval and construct hypothesis testing. Certain restrictions are outlined in the document. Students will experience the complexity of constructing their own study. They ar
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10th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Financial Literacy and Consumer Math Activities & Projects: EXTENSION BUNDLE
This bundle provides teachers with fun, engaging math extension activities that build financial literacy and consumer math knowledge. It's a perfect resource for any classroom that wants to improve financial literacy!Teaching personal finance and consumer math to middle and high school students can be difficult because the amount of quality resources that are practical and relevant are hard to find. Schools need to do a better job of teaching students to be financially literate and better consum
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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My Future Career and Budget ELA PBL
This is an English Language Arts PBL but can be easily adapted to any elementary school or Math class. Introduce household budgeting with research to make a career choice. Excel Budgeting Spreadsheets have formulas set up to automatically calculate taxes and percentages. Certain cells are formulated to credit and debit amounts. Teach students about the importance of education and choice by using this spreadsheet.Included in this purchase:<PBL Challenge Card<PBL ELA grading rubric <G
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4th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Blank Banking Forms: Checks, Deposit Slips, Registry, Reconciliation Form
Blank forms to be used in Consumer Math during a banking unit. Students can practice writing checks and deposit slips, and make sure they are keeping accurate totals. I print off a bunch of these blank forms and give them to the students in an envelope and then create a list of transactions for the month to make sure they keep detailed and accurate records. This PDF has four pages and includes checks, deposit slips, check registry, and a reconciliation form. Use all of them or just the ones
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Statistics Survey project Discovery (broken down into sections) with Rubric
This is a broken down (scaffolded) packet of instructions/ guide for a Stats Project for Math 1 HS or 8th grade students. The goal of the project is for students to take a statistical survey on quantitative data (numbers) of their choice. Using this data from the survey, the following will be included in the project:Survey- the question being askedSurvey responses (requirement of 30)Data organization: Bar chart, Histogram, Dot PlotMeanMedianModeBox and Whisket Plot5 number summary (Q1,Q2,Q3, min
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Budget Project- Do you have enough to move out?
Students research their dream career, figure out their income and monthly expensesKeeping in mind things like: taxes, emergency fund, groceries, etc. Google slide version as well as a printableColor coded with a table for students to figure out their budgetGreat for the end of the year projects, or a consumer math courseAll related links are includedGoal setting included (long and short term financial goals)Great real-world applicationReflection questions included
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Mortgage Amortization Project on Mortgage Loans for Consumer Math
In this consumer math project, students will be provided with a worksheet on mortgage amortization. Students will go onto a reputable online mortgage amortization calculator and compare monthly payments and total interest paid based on different loan terms, interest rates, down payments and additional contributions made to the principal. After doing some basic calculations, students will answer some conclusion questions about mortgage amortization. Students should already have an understanding o
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Consumer Math Mortgage Loans Lessons and Project Bundle
Create your own BESTSELLING BOARD GAME!
Elevate Classroom Learning by having students design their own board game! Transform your classroom into a dynamic hub of creativity and critical thinking with this innovative project designed to empower high school students in math, economics, and life skills classes. This comprehensive resource sparks imagination, encourages teamwork, and hones essential skills while crafting custom board games.Key Features:Engaging Curriculum Integration: seamlessly blends with math, economics, and life skill
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Financial Algebra Time Capsule Project
Allow students to create a 5 year plan for after graduation. Students will have two parts of the project. Email the paper portion to their teacher. And present the poster board to their class. Included is a rubric.
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Diamond Dave's Dealership
Take your students on a journey to make their first big purchase, a new car! This activity shows students how to calculate the monthly payment of their dream car, or any car they choose. They will learn about the different factors that determine the overall price and monthly payment: APR, down payments, credit score, lengths of loans and taxes and fees from the dealership. Students should be able to complete the activity with little direction, but you can add your own flair and instruction at an
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10th - 12th, Adult Education
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BUNDLE: Draw the Fibonacci Spiral, Fibonacci in Nature, Golden Ratio
Welcome to the world of FIBONACCI! The following three labs are presented in an investigative manner, intended to provoke thought among the students and to guide them into an outstanding learning experience as they enter the fascinating world of The Fibonacci Sequence. Each lab addresses the Fibonacci Sequence from a different perspective, and each offers students a learning experience, rich and packed with learning enrichment.The introductory lab to the Fibonacci Sequence is, in my opinion, the
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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HS Senior Event - Reality Check
Reality Check is a one day event for the Senior class. The event is 2 hours and can be broken into sections based on the size of your student population. Before the event, you need to have a meeting to talk to the students to set expectations and goals. Each Student is assigned a career, salary, and possibly a family. A list of careers was created based on Central Florida. There was a local CPA that has helped with the starting salary list and calculating taxes. The salaries are based off a 25
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Lemonade Wars! Math PBL (Ratios and Unit Rates)
OverviewThis project is a play on the popular competitive cooking shows. Students will create their own drink creations, manipulate ratios, calculate unit cost and create unique advertisements.Problems cover, ratios, ratios tables, unit rates, and mathematical reasoning. This project was created to be administered digitally, but in a live setting I would have students bring in their drinks and invite a guest panel of judges to critique their drinks.Standards:Common Core aligned! Rubrics are in
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6th - 9th, Adult Education
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Personal Banking Project - Simple Interest vs. Compound Interest
This document includes instructions and an example for the personal banking project. Students will analyze how simple interest and compound interest accrues differently over time. Students will be given a hypothetical situation and will need to research various banks and interest rates to make a decision about how to store the money. They will calculate the simple and compound account balances a certain time intervals, as well as create a table and graph for the data, and draw conclusions based
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Consumer Math Bundle - Projects, Worksheets, and Answer Keys
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