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Career Education for Early Elementary Grades
It's never too early to connect children with the real world meaning of their work. A series of four one-hour sessions, plus a field trip, make up this unit on college and career readiness for first and second graders. After viewing a...
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FILLING EMPTY POCKETS: BORROWING, LOANS AND CREDIT.
Students learn that maintaining financial security takes a good math understanding. In this lesson, students apply mathematical formulas to make important financial decisions like getting the right loan to buy a house, decide which...
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The Many Roles I Play in My Community
Second graders are asked: "What roles do people have in the community?" They view a large web on chart paper. Students discuss the roles that they play in their community. They are told that just as the principal or teacher has many...
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Compound Interest
Students solve compound interest problems. In this solving compound interest problems lesson, students use TVM Solver on the Ti-83 Plus. Students find the future value of a principal amount at a given interest rate compounded a certain...
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Data Analysis: Investing is an "Interesting" Experience
Students compute interest earned. In this data analysis lesson plan, students examine investments and interest rates. They compute the total interest earned and find the simple interest.
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Simple Interest
In this simple interest worksheet, students use the interest formula to find missing values. They determine interest, principal, interest rates, and time borrowed. This one-page worksheet contains 12 problems.
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Calculating Interest
In this calculating interest worksheet, 7th graders solve 10 different problems that include determining the simple interest in each box. First, they identify and define the terms for finding the simple interest in each. Then, students...
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Interest Word Problems
For this interest worksheet, 7th graders solve 10 different problems that include word problems and determining interest rates. First, they determine the principal paid on a certain amount of money borrowed. Then, students determine how...
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Chapter 12 - Objective 5.1 Formula Problems
In this formula worksheet, students read short story problems and determine the correct formula. They compute compound interest, use the Richter equation to figure magnitude and find the pH of given solutions. This one-page worksheet...
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Interest Problems
In this interest problem worksheet, students read investment problems and determine necessary information. They compute the amount of simple interest earned, find the principal, or determine the time. They identify the principal,...
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Chapter 4 - Objective 5.1 - Interest & Investments
In this interest and investment worksheet, students are given investment information and total earnings for two accounts which pay different interest rates. From information given, students determine the amount invested at each interest...
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Calculating Interest
Students explore the concept that when money is borrowed, people pay to use it because someone else is losing an opportunity to use it while they have it. What you pay to use the money is called interest. The rate of interest is a...
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Math Applications 12
In this mortgages worksheet, students solve 2 different problems that include 2 or more parts to each one. First, they determine the total amount a couple will pay for their house, how much the cost is interest, and what portion of the...
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Buying My First Car
Students pretend they are about to buy their first new car. They must do all the calculations necessary to estimate the cost of purchasing the car. They see that the math they learn in school really does have real-life applications.
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Pbs Learning Media: Consistent Supervision and Ongoing Evaluation
Many districts are moving to a model in which skilled principal supervisors engage often with principals in their schools. These regular visits, coupled with evaluation based on rubrics, provide ongoing guidance to improve practice. This...
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Pbs Learning Media: Supporting New Principals in the Early Years
The first year for a new principal can be a daunting and lonely job. Supporting new principals with strong induction programs, ongoing mentorships (possibly for several years), and forums which encourage principal interaction with...
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Pbs Learning Media: Principal as Instructional Leader
The key role of the principal is instructional leader. However, there are many pressures that prevent principals from getting into classrooms to help teachers build their instructional capacity. The traditional time-consuming observation...
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Pbs Learning Media: Ongoing Support
Principals need support, not only in their early years, but throughout their careers. Support and encouragement can come from networks of principals who meet regularly to share problems and solutions and reflect on their practice....
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Pbs Learning Media: Teacher Leaders and Teacher Teams
Leadership preparation begins with early and meaningful opportunities for teachers to lead. The traditional span of control in schools with one principal supervising scores of teachers is outdated and no longer functional. Distributed...
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Get Out of Bed [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Diane Z. Shore's funny poem, Get Out of Bed, is provided on these pages. Two character roles are needed in this activity.
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Univ. Of West Georgia: Analyzing the Leadership Behavior of School Principals
This academic document describes various methods of measuring a principal's leadership behavior. The authors developed a new survey instrument that can be used to analyze the leadership behavior/style of a principal.
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Finra Investor Education Foundation: Introduction to Earning Interest 11 & 12
Young scholars will know and be able to use the formula for calculating compound interest and understand the effect of compounding on savings in this lesson.
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Finra Investor Education Foundation: Introduction to Earning Interest
In this lesson, students will learn about the concept of compound interest and understand its effect on savings. They will also learn how to compute simple and compound interest.
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Texas Instruments: Compound Interest
In this activity, students use the TI graphing calculator to calculate compound interest. They understand that in compound interest computations, the interest from the previous period is added to the current principal and the new total...