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Adult education applied math resources under $5
Fermi Unit | Questions & Problem Solving | Project Based Learning Math Tasks
Here is a typical "Fermi" question: How long would it take to count to one million? - Obviously, there is no definitive answer; you can't google it, which is the POWER and PURPOSE of a Fermi problem. The coolest math classes of 2024. Fermi problems ARE NOT ABOUT THE ANSWER but the MATHEMATICAL JOURNEY TO THE ANSWER. Exploring MATHEMATICAL LOGIC, RESEARCH, ESTIMATION AND CALCULATION. STUDENTS LOVE FERMI QUESTIONS because they allow them to THINK, SIMULATE, TEST, and EXPLORE big concepts an
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4th - 10th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Financial Literacy: Net Worth, Assets, Liabilities, and Equity: Personal Finance
This engaging assignment teaches high school students about assets, liabilities, and net worth (equity). It is a great way to get your students interested in personal finance, financial literacy, and building wealth.First, give students the one-page handout to teach the definitions and examples of assets and liabilities, along with the formula for calculating equity (net worth).Then, 3 real world case studies are included with calculations to complete and questions to respond to. Students have t
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8th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: High School Financial Literacy MEGA Bundle: Personal Finance Worksheets
#TEACHERGRAM Understanding Your Paycheck Worksheet
Paychecks- Understanding Pay and Paycheck Stub/Earnings Statement Exploration WorksheetThis activity involves students analyzing a paycheck stub/earnings statement in order to get a better understanding of it. Students will be given information about the pay period and tax amounts and asked to fill out a paystub. This activity involves students using a paycheck stub/earnings statement to respond to questions dealing with how they get paid, taxes and other deductions taken out of pay, benefits, m
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Restaurant Budgeting Math Problem Solving Worksheet
This is a budgeting worksheet for trips to restaurants in the community. Students can plan their meals, look up prices, and figure out tax and tip. It was created to be used for community-based instruction for my high schoolers in special education. We plan our meals and budgets before we travel in the community. It can also be used with a sample menu in the classroom.
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Paychecks- Calculation of Hourly Wages, Overtime, Salaries, and Commission
Paychecks- Calculation of Hourly Wages, Overtime, Salaries, and Commission This activity worksheet is an excellent, quick/simple tool to use to teach students how to calculate hourly wage, overtime pay, salary pay, and commission. The activity is broken into 4 sections- one for each form of payment. Each form of payment includes a detailed explanation, formula, example, and problems for students to try. This is a no prep activity for when you just want to briefly introduce the items and not spen
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Consumer math activities - Money word problems fun, engaging (Gr.6-9)
Here are 4 math activities involving budgeting, unit pricing, rounding to the nearest penny, and more. In today's financial climate, consumer math is critical! Three fun, challenging explorations involving a camping trip, a day at the mall, and a late night visit to greasy spoon diner. An 8 question problem solving assessment with an answer key is included. I used these with my 6th graders, who needed a little help but enjoyed them! I will send you a zip file with all of the files in Word and
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6th - 9th, 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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Battleship Plotting Points Coordinate Plane Math Competition Game
Students enjoy practicing plotting points by using this activity sheet. Students work in pairs, keeping this sheet from view (I usually use folders or binders, similar to the old-fashioned"BATTLESHIP" game). Each student uses a copy of this page to plot "ships" of specific lengths. Students take turns naming ordered pairs, and respond "HIT" or "MISS" for each pair named. To keep track of one's own guesses, mark this sheet with an "x" for each missed point and a point for each hit. First pla
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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Community Trip Spending Plan | SPED Life Skills | Menu Math Activity
Need a way to plan mock or real off campus community spending trips (involving purchases) with your SPED classroom? Whether you are stuck in the classroom or you are headed out in the community frequently, you can use this template to plan MOCK or REAL community trips! One example trip (to Starbucks) is included. Save all your past community trip slides in this document so you can reuse them in the future! I like to use this activity with students EVEN when we are not going off campus. We do thi
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9th - 12th, Adult Education
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Also included in: Consumer Life Skills MEGA GROWING BUNDLE | SPED High School Community
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
Crash Course Physics #5 (Newton's Laws) worksheet
This is a zip file that contains a Microsoft Word worksheet (along with a PDF version) to accompany the crash course video for Physics #5. Answer key is included as well.By purchasing this file, you agree not to make it publicly available (on websites, etc.) or to share with any other teachers. It is intended for classroom use only. You may, however, post it on learning management systems such as Google Classroom as long as the file is only accessible to students and not to any outside sources.=
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Data Analysis: Human Population Increase & Plastic Pollution CER Open Response
Students identify the pattern between rising human population & increasing plastic pollution rates. Using line graphs, students are guided in describing the relationship between two data sets to describe the negative human impact on ecosystems. A claim - evidence- reasoning (CER) graphic organizer is provided to guide students' writing. Encouraged to incorporate evidence, students are also prompted to think about the importance of each element of the CER writing tool. This activity is chunke
Purchasing a Car ( Amortization of Monthly Payments)
Students will calculate the cost of purchasing/financing 7 different cars, and compare to choose the best deal! Students have to calculate the down payment (10%), the monthly payment (using amortization monthly payment formula), and the total amount paid for the car after the loan time period ends.
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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Task Cards Reading Graphs: Line Graphs, Bar Graphs, and Pie Chart: Revised
40 Task Cards. Teach your students how to read and interpret a line graph, bar graph, or pie chart from a word problem or given data. Challenge your students to think more critically and become better mathematicians. Start your students on their
way to becoming better problem graphic interpreters.
A teachers guide entitled “Learn to Read Graphs” is included. An answer guide for each activity is also provided.
Some common core standards met by this activity will be:
CCSS.Math.
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3rd - 9th, Adult Education
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Life Skills Halloween Shopping Math Total Cost Calculation Level 1 Print Unit
Fall is upon us! Halloween Sweets & Treats brings some festive learning fun your way! For this lesson, students are provided an 15 page merchandise pricing guide. For each example, students are asked to identify prices for two varying items. Students are presented the items in visual form. Next, the student is asked to identify the total cost, by adding the two identified price points together. There are eight worksheets in all, and a full answer key is provided for your convenience. St
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3rd - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: Halloween Shopping Menu Functional Math ALL LESSONS GROWING BUNDLE
Thanksgiving Dinner on a Budget | High School Math | October and November
Get your students ready to learn how to budget for a Thanksgiving dinner in October (Canada) or November (USA)! This resource focuses on learning about hourly wages, and net pay deductions. Each scenario includes a person trying to budget for a Thanksgiving dinner they're each hosting. Scenarios include grocery shopping, catering options, discounts, purchase tax, and monthly expenses. If you're a new high school math teacher looking for a fun and simple math activity to evaluate your students me
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Skip Counting Coins & Bills | SPED Money Math | 3 Levels Worksheets
Help students add money (by skip counting) groups of same coins & bills (1's, 5's, 10's, 20's, 25's, 50's and 100's) with this set of visual reference posters & worksheets using real photos of U.S. Currency! Use this activity with your Special Education class (any grade) or with any First, Second or Third Grade Elementary students. Looking for the rest of the "Adding Money Worksheets" in the series? Click here for the worksheet bundle!54 Pages Included progressing in sequential difficul
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1st - 12th, Adult Education
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Identifying Coins & Values | Special Ed Money Math | 3 Levels Worksheets
Help students learn money identification & amounts (for coins) with this set of worksheets using real photos of U.S. Currency! Teach how to identify pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and their monetary values using a variety of questions. Use this activity with your Special Education class (any grade) or with any First, Second or Third Grade Elementary students. Teaching both coins & bills? Save with this bundle!Or SAVE with the Mega Bundle of Identifying Coins & Bills here!These wil
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1st - 12th, Adult Education
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Interpreting Graphs for the Middle & Junior High School: Book 2
Here is another set of data graphics for your students to analyze and interpret. Using survey results from the USA Today newspaper, students will be asked to explain what the graphics are illustrating. Each activity will ask the student to identify basic information presented in each graphic and make some projections based on the data given in the survey.
The activities in this packet are a great way to improve your student’s skills in taking apart graphic displays of information. Brin
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4th - 10th, Adult Education
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Distance = Rate * Time - Powerpoints, Practice Worksheets, Guided Notes, & RELAY
Distance-Rate-Time problems can be taught in so many cool and engaging ways! Here I'm offering two Power-points with guided notes that I use every year with my students. Each year I add more 'cool' stuff to keep my students and MYSELF excited about this topic! The Power-points are good for introduction or practice, and whole-class, small group, or center instruction. The example and practice problems vary in degree of difficulty, and are easily revised for any level. I teach inclusion to gifted
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7th - 9th, Adult Education
BINGO Translating Algebraic Variable Expressions and Word Phrases
Great activity to keep all students engaged while practicing an all-important problem-solving skill. Students randomly select variable expressions from a list, then the teacher describes each expression in words within a problem-solving context. This practice with translating is a key skill to real-world problem-solving!
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Ratios and Rates Graphic Organizer
This Solving Equations "Write-Around"
Linear Systems Problem Solving with Unique Graphic Organizer!
Fractions Pape
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5th - 12th, Adult Education
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The Rule of 72
The Rule of 72
The Rule of 72 is a simple formula/method used to determine how long an investment/your money will take to double, given a fixed annual rate of interest. The formula can also be used to determine what interest rate you need to double your money in "X" amount of years.
This no prep, simple worksheet goes over what The Rule of 72 is, how to use it when the interest rate is known, and how to use it when the number of years is known. Students will be using the Power of 72 calculator
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Data Analysis: Deforestation & Oxygen Gas Human Impact CER Open Response
Students identify the pattern between deforestation (decreasing area of forest) & decreasing amount of oxygen gas in the air. Using line graphs, students are guided in describing the relationship between two data sets to describe the negative human impact on ecosystems. A claim - evidence- reasoning (CER) graphic organizer is provided to guide students' writing. Encouraged to incorporate evidence, students are also prompted to think about the importance of each element of the CER writing too
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