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"What's Your Job Worth"

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students locate salary information, compare the cost of living in various area, and create a salary chart.
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Value of Education: Education and Earning Power

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Young scholars explore the concept a higher education yields higher earnings. Throughout the class, students visit six workstations and examine occupations, education, salaries, spending, banking, and taxes. As young scholars rotate...
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Are Colleges Still Affordable?

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students investigate mathematical model that compares cost of higher education to potential earnings in order to decide if the investment is a good one. They compute amount to be repaid each year for the life of a student loan and then...
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Stadium Consultants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct research to determine the operating costs and considerations for a Major League Baseball stadium. They act as consultants and formulate recommendations for ticket prices, player salaries, rainy day play and stadium...
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Married Math

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students participate in a two-week real-life math unit. In pairs, they calculate salaries, taxes, and a budget, plan a vacation, buy insurance, make a will, and design a room. They conduct Internet research to plan the vacation, and...
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CHAPTER 10 - THE CONGRESS SECTION 4: THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WORKSHEET

For Students 7th - 12th
Through this resource, your class will investigate the job description, salary, and level of responsibility of a member of congress. There are 5 vocabulary matching questions and 5 multiple choice questions. Please note this worksheet...
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Call the Police! Scavenger Hunt

For Students 4th - 6th
For this policeman worksheet, students utilize the Internet to visit one specific website to locate the answers to five questions about accepting a job as a policeman.
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Visa

Making Money

For Teachers 8th - 11th Standards
From evaluating the current employment market to building a resume, pupils are introduced to the wide and varied elements of career planning. 
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Practical Money Skills

Budgeting Your Money

For Teachers 6th - 12th
How do you make sure that your income doesn't disappear before you have a chance to save it? Use a creative budgeting activity to teach learners in both special education and mainstream classes how to keep track of their expenditures and...
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Practical Money Skills

Making Money

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The first step in managing your money is making money! Learn about ways to find and interview for a job with a thorough lesson on personal finances. Kids learn about the ways to earn a paycheck and then manage the funds they receive.
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Inside Mathematics

House Prices

For Teachers 8th Standards
Mortgages, payments, and wages correlate with each other. The short assessment presents scatter plots for young mathematicians to interpret. Class members interpret the scatter plots of price versus payment and wage versus payment for...
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California Department of Education

Where Am I Going?

For Teachers 7th Standards
How do I get where I'm going from here? The fifth of six college and career readiness lessons invites seventh graders to dig deep into the career of their choice. Once they complete their research, individuals relate their findings to...
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Radford University

Percentages: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Math can be taxing at times. With a short lesson plan, 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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Radford University

Business Ownership

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Let's learn a little bit about business! Given information about a t-shirt company, young mathematicians explore the revenue, costs, profits, and future sales. They develop mathematical models for these quantities using linear,...
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Performance
Radford University

Summer Woes!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Who can afford the computer required to land a summer job? Pupils work in pairs to solve problems related to finding the number of hours needed to work to purchase a given item. Individuals then work on a performance-based assessment to...
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Performance
Radford University

Exploring Equations through Life Goals

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What do I want to do when I grow up? Learners research job categories and determine a career within the category. Using the chosen job, pupils find the hourly wage and calculate future income based on percentage wages. Individuals then...
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Economic Activity and Markets

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify and interpret that economic activity involves making choices in the face of scarcity, therefore making choices involves a cost. They also identify that individuals interact in markets by inducing one another, through...
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Compound Interest

For Students 8th - 10th
In this compound interest worksheet, students solve 3 problems after reading about compound interest. They determine the cost of the Apollo missions, they calculate inflation and the cost it would be to send man to the moon today and...
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Exploring Data Sets and Statistics in Baseball

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the concept data sets.  In this data sets lesson, students find the 5 number summaries for salaries of teachers and compare them with 5 number summaries of professional baseball players.  Students use box and whisker...
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Jobs and Salaries

For Students 9th - 12th
For this economics worksheet, students look for the budgets and go through the practical activities of maintaining a monthly expense sheet.
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Mathematics: Best Salary

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders pretend to need jobs to earn money for a go-cart which costs $1,000. They predict which of two scenarios raise the money first. they construct charts and graphs to demonstrate their predictions.
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Show Me the Money: Labor/Management Issues in Professional Baseball

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners study the baseball players in the past and present and see how the union played a part in lives.  In this labor lesson young scholars analyze documents and identify the effects of the different markets on labor salaries. 
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Lisa Leslie - Women's Basketball Star

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders read from their textbooks about Lisa Leslie, the famous American women's basketball star. They discuss the overall disparity of attention and salaries in women's sports compared to men's. They write facts and opinions...
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Math Instructional Technology Information

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate the correlation between education and salary. In this business lesson, students analyze the salary rate for different jobs to determine if there is a correlation between the two. They graph their findings and report...

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