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Assessment
Concord Consortium

Smart Money

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Watch the money grow daily. Scholars tackle a problem to determine how much money they will have if a dollar grows at 10 percent compounded daily after a month. Using that knowledge, learners notice the difference between varying savings...
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Assessment
EngageNY

End-of-Module Assessment Task: Grade 7 Mathematics Module 4

For Students 7th Standards
Asses the class to determine their knowledge of proportional relationships involving percents. Class members work through the nine-question assessment with a variety of percent problems. The multi-step problems involve simple interest,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Solving Problems Involving Interest

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this math worksheet, learners find the answers to the word problems that focus upon the use of interest and figuring out the payments.
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Battery Charging

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Your class will be very interested in the results of this activity. How long does it take a MP3 and video game player to charge?  Sam only has an hour and the MP3 player only has 40% of its battery life left. Plus, his video player is...
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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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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Thinking About Credit

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore the concept of credit. In this credit lesson, students discuss what it means to buy items using credit. Students discuss how interest accrues and how much is really being paid with a credit card. Students calculate...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Do You Double Your Money?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students understand how to calculate the return on investments for various rates and lengths. Also, they compare their results with the StocksQuest Calculator, which lists calculations year by year.
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Curated OER

Practice: Word Problems

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Congratulations, you've just hit the word problem jackpot! Covering an incredible range of topics from integers and fractions, to percents, geometry, and much more, this collection of worksheets will keep young mathematicians busy...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Percent Application Worksheet

For Students 6th - 7th
In this problem solving worksheet, students solve each of the ten word problems by using their knowledge of percent, proportions, simple interest, and sales tax.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finding Discount and Sale Price

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders solve real-life problems involving sales tax, discount, and simple interest. They find the amount of discount. In groups, 7th graders examine a sales advertisement. Given a budget, they choose purchases, and figure the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Be the Kiwi: Money and Banking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice converting money systems and interest. In this money lesson, students convert U.S. and New Zealand dollars. Students also discuss international travel and money exchange rates.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math and Money

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students explore financial literacy.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students investigate income, taxes, and costs of living.  Students investigate banking and use straightforward computation to learn about savings, simple...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Conditional Probability and Probability of Simultaneous Events

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Your statisticians examine the characteristics of conditional probability and the probability of simultaneous independent events. They perform computer activities to find probabilities for simple compound events. They examine the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Probability Games and Activities, Unit 6

For Students 6th - 8th
Get your mathematicians thinking about probability with these three activity ideas using tangible math. First, middle schoolers use dice to play a simple game, determining how many "odds" and "evens" they need to win. Next, they consider...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rap Your Way Through Integers

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Your resource or special education class will have fun with this interesting approach to learning about integers. They use rap, movement, and an interactive online game to reinforce the rules of integers. A well-rounded lesson that...
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Activity
Illustrative Mathematics

Identifying Rational Numbers

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Eight different numbers are listed for mathematics masters to analyze. They simply tell if each number is rational or irrational. They can also explain their reasoning. A simple and straightforward worksheet that is a handy tool for...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem

For Teachers 7th - 9th Standards
Use the given tasks and detailed teacher's commentary to introduce your 8th graders to the Pythagorean theorem and its converse. Embedded links to information about Egyptian geometry make your presentation interesting. Consider giving...
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Lesson Plan
Exploratorium

Exploring Tessellations

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Tessellations are patterns of repeating shapes that don't overlap and don't have any gaps. Middle schoolers take this simple definition and engage in a lesson that combines visual art and mathematics. They cut out index cards using...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Finding Sales Tax

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate sales tax. Following a teacher demonstration, they find sales tax and the total cost of items. In groups, classmates choose items from a menu that they would like to purchase. Each student figures the sales...
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Federal Reserve Bank

Lesson 3: A Fresh Start

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
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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Assessment
Achieve

False Positives

For Students 7th - 10th Standards
The test may say you have cancer, but sometimes the test is wrong. The provided task asks learners to analyze cancer statistics for a fictitious town. Given the rate of false positives, they interpret the meaning of this value in the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

7.RP Music Companies, Variation 1

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
We've got the beat! And your musically-minded mathematicians will tap their toes as they determine which music company would be getting a better deal based on their offers to buy out TunesTown. The topic is extended in an additional task...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

What Is the Federal Reserve?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars examine simple bank transactions. In this banking lesson, students analyze banking transactions such as deposits, loans, and how they hold reserves. They participate in simulations of the process of clearing a check and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

I want a credit card--or do I?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students pretend to borrow $1000.00 on a credit card. They pretend to make the minimum payments for a year. When they're done, they make a pie chart showing how much of their payments reduced their debt, and how much was interest.

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