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Home Sales Records
Teach your class how to calculate monthly payments on a home mortgage. For this percent lesson, students calculate the monthly payment on a home mortgage, and compare different lengths of time and the interest rates for national median...
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Monthly Expenses
Teach your class about finances and have them fill out real or simulated expenses on this sheet. Class members fill in amounts for rent, groceries, loans, car expenses, insurance, utilities, and more in order to determine the total cost...
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Extra Credit: It’s No Fairy Tale
Students discuss their knowledge of payday loans and credit cards. In this Economics lesson, students complete a read an article and Q&A activity in groups, and play a vocabulary bingo game and a quiz game on payday loans. Students...
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Buying a House
There's no place like home. Future home owners investigate the cost of buying a house in the 33rd installment of a 35-part module. They come to realize that the calculations are simply a variation of previous formulas involving car loans...
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Real Life Challenge- Give Me Credit!
In this credit worksheet, students calculate the value of 4 different loans before completing a table about credit card offers advertised in newspapers, magazine, or junk mail.
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Interest Rate Assignment
In this personal finance worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to calculate interest rates for loans of different lengths of time.
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Life Skills for Vocational Success: Transportation, Owning a Car; Topic 2: Financing a Car
Discuss various places to obtain a loan. Your class will determine the principal, interest, and terms of a loan. They will also compute the monthly payments of loans, including the interest. They contact three lending institutions to...
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Life Skills for Vocational Success: Transportation, Owning a Car, Topic 1: Purchasing a Car
Discuss things to consider when purchasing a car with high schoolers. They will use newspaper ads to locate a car in their price range. Then they use a "Loan Calculation Chart" to estimate monthly payments of their car. In the end, they...
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Credit Cards and Compound Interests-Exponential Growth
Eleventh graders investigate the way credit cards work when collecting interest. In this algebra lesson, 11th graders investigate the growth of interest exponentially when using a credit card. They calculate what the cheapest rate is to...
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Your Money and Your Math
In this algebra instructional activity, students calculate interest based on a certain amount of capital, sale or item purchased. They convert percents to decimals and perform the correct calculations to find their answer. There are 20...
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How Can Entrepreneurs Control Costs?
Young scholars calculate fixed and variable costs. In this costs lesson, students read a case study about an entrepreneur and her business costs. Individuals complete the provided worksheets to find costs and make related business...
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Mid-Module Assessment Task: Grade 7 Module 2
A seven-question assessment determines how well your learners understand the procedures to add, subtract, multiply, and divide signed rational numbers. Pupils show their understanding through problem-solving situations.
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The True Cost of Owning a Car
Almost every teen wants a car, but can they really afford one? The instructional activity walks pupils through how to identify a budget, find all of the costs associated with car ownership, and determine if they should buy the car or...
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Debt
Fourth graders read a book about debt, credit, and interest rates and write a story about these topics. In this debt and credit instructional activity, 4th graders read the book Four Dollars and Fifty Cents, define the terms "debt" and...
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Balancing a Budget
Students investigate money management. In this secondary mathematics activity, students participate in a cost-of-living budget simulation in which they calculate monthly and yearly projected costs. Students investigate housing cost,...
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Balancing a Budget
Students calculate living expenses for a non-traditional career choice. They examine interest, balancing a checkbook, and financing cars and homes.
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Credit Purchases
Twelfth graders calculate interest on purchases bought with a credit card. They use the formula I=PRT to find the interest. In pairs, they use a flyer to calculate the interest for electronic items.
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Buying vs. Leasing Car
Young scholars use the Internet and worksheets to calculate the costs, advantages and disadvantages to buying or leasing a car. They write a summary of their investigation and decide which option they think is better.
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Random Probability
In this statistics and probability worksheet, young statisticians solve and complete 13 different problems related to probability, percentages, and normal distributions. They consider data models, assumptions about the models, and find...
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The Car Deal Package
Buying a car is no easy task, and can have major long-term consequences if done without proper financial knowledge. Ensure your learners are prepared with the information and criteria for comparing different car deals and signing contracts.
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Credit Cards - A Package Deal
Arm your learners with the information they will need to make smart decisions regarding credit cards and personal savings.
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Lesson 3: A Fresh Start
The members of your economics class may be busy earning graduation credits, but the credit they should be concerned about is their financial credit. The third lesson in a unit about Hurricane Katrina and other events that can result in...
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"Reality Math: Fact or Fiction"
Students investigate the use of math in everyday life. They investigate several occupations and pay scales. They complete spreadsheets that show how monthly bills can be organized using technology. They use word processing software to...
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Buy or Lease an Automobile
Students gather information on 3 new cars they would like to buy or lease, and use mathematical comparisons to decide whether to buy or lease the car.