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Federal Reserve Bank

Income Taxes

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Most adults dread April 15 — tax day! Tax preparation can be intimidating even for adults. Build confidence by leading individuals through the process and then give them a scenario to practice. The exercise uses tax vocabulary to give...
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Virginia Department of Education

Sales Tax and Tip

For Teachers 7th Standards
Don't forget to tip your server. Future consumers learn how to calculate sales taxes and tips. Pairs use actual restaurant menus to create an order and determine the total bill, including taxes and tips.
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Balanced Assessment

Sales Tax Table

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Sales tax rates vary; do the math to find the right rate! Pupils use before tax amounts and after tax amounts to determine the tax rate. Rounding makes the task challenging.
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EngageNY

Tax, Commissions, Fees, and Other Real-World Percent Problems

For Teachers 7th Standards
Pupils work several real-world problems that use percents in the 11th portion of a 20-part series. The problems contain percents involved with taxes, commissions, discounts, tips, fees, and interest. Scholars use the equations formed for...
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Curated OER

Tax Problem: Percents

For Students 9th - 12th
In this tax worksheet, students solve 1 problem about taxes.  Students find the federal and state tax on a given amount of money.
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Curated OER

Taxes, Tips, and Salaries

For Students 7th - 9th
In this taxes, tips and salaries worksheet, students read story problems and determine the sales price, percent of change, amount of tax, and final price.  This four-page worksheet contains 8 multi-step prolems.  Answers are provided on...
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Curated OER

Analyzing "Do Not Tax the Colonies"

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this primary source research worksheet, students examine a copy of "Do Not Tax the Colonies," (not included) and respond to 6 short answer questions regarding its content.
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Curated OER

Excise Taxes

For Students 10th - 12th
Challenge your class with this worksheet relating to the excise tax. They examine a variety of graphs and diagrams, solve problems, and make predictions.
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Curated OER

Taxes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this word search worksheet, students solve a word search by locating forty words related to taxes. The word list includes IRS, jail, and law.
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Curated OER

Reteach: Sales Tax and Discounts

For Students 6th
In this sales tax worksheet, 6th graders read steps to finding sales prices, sale tax amounts, and total cost of sale items. They solve twelve problems using those steps.
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Curated OER

Discount and Sales Tax

For Students 8th - 9th
In this Algebra I learning exercise, students work with a family member to find the percent of discount and sales tax of three items that are on sale. The twopage learning exercise contains fourquestions. Answers are not included.
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Lesson Plan
iCivics

Taxation

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
A paycheck stub can offer loads of information on the taxes American citizens pay. This resource not only includes analysis of a stub as an activity, but also provides a wealth of informative reading material on such topics as the...
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Radford University

Percentages: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Math can be taxing at times. With a short lesson, pupils determine how income tax affects take-home pay. Learners determine their net pay based on tax tables and how adjustments in their gross pay changes the paycheck.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Tax and Tip

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Finding out how to calculate tax and tip is a valuable skill that all young adults should be able to do without a calculator. Learners are given a bill and asked to calculate the tax, tip, and total amount. Calculations can be exact or...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Kendall's Vase - Tax

For Teachers 6th - 7th Standards
Practice sales tax when using the activity with three solution choices. Learners can use a percent table, benchmark percent, or solve by calculating. Solutions don't show how to multiply by the decimal, but method can be added in. Great...
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Activity
Conneticut Department of Education

Personal Finance Project Resource Book

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Balancing a budget, paying taxes, and buying a home may feel out of reach for your high schoolers, but in their adult years they will thank you for the early tips. A set of five lessons integrates applicable money math activities with...
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Curated OER

What Is a Fair Tax?

For Students 10th - 12th
In this What Is a Fair Tax worksheet, students read about different types of taxes, solve problems, and answer questions (including those requiring an opinion with facts).
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Curated OER

Markup, Discount, and Tax (Harder)

For Students 8th - 9th
In this algebra worksheet, students calculate prices with taxes and percents attached. They figure the finals price for each problem after they correctly compute the taxes and percent. There are 16 problems on this worksheet.
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Curated OER

Markup, Discount and Tax

For Students 6th
For this selling price worksheet, 6th graders solve and complete 24 different types of problems. First, they find the selling price for each item described. Then, students determine the discount rate using the original price and...
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Curated OER

Leveled Problem Solving Discounts, Markups, Tips, and Sales Tax

For Students 6th - 7th
In this discounts and sales tax instructional activity, students problem solve and work with discounts, markups, tips, and sales tax by completing the six word problems.
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Curated OER

Tax Time Word Search

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this word search worksheet, students find words often heard when talking about taxes. Twenty words are included in the words search.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Buying a Car

For Teachers 8th - 12th Standards
Teenagers love to think about driving and buying their first car. The intent of this resource is to create an equation for the list price of a car and add the appropriate state tax. Once your teens understand the calculation, ask them to...
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Handout
Federal Reserve Bank

Would Increasing the Minimum Wage Reduce Poverty?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Here is a fantastic and relevant question to discuss with your class members. Using detailed reading material and a related worksheet, your learners will learn about labor markets, equilibrium wages, price floors, and who exactly would...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Percent Applications

For Students 6th - 10th
In this percent application worksheet, students solve word problems containing concepts such as percent, proportions, sale price, discounts, interest, commission, tax, and more. Students complete 11 problems.

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