Students read, analyze and critique a newspaper article about a nun's murder in Brazil. They assess key vocabulary terms found within the article, answer a variety of comprehension questions and study how to write a letter to a newspaper.

Students determine how scientists measure pollutants in food and the environment. Students discover how scientists remove one material based on its physical properties. Students figure out how much of a pollutant is present after...

Young scholars work together to discover the concepts of stability and equilibrium. They examine how equilibrium is related to an item's center of mass. They create their own action scene in a literacy activity.

For this math worksheet, students compute the annual rate of appreciation or depreciation in a set of 7 problems. Each problem involves a given amount of money (or value) and indicates the percent of appreciation or depreciation.

Students examine pollutants and investigate air pollution emitted by a car in a year.  In this air pollution lesson students complete an activity and make calculations. 

Using this interactive lesson, you'll calculate compound interest and compare interest rates. In addition to learning about interest, you will also be learning about taking out a mortgage on a home. Three activities with questions...

This lesson for 9th and 10th graders focuses on the concept of compound interest and its effect on savings. Students will also learn how to compute simple and compound interest.

In this lesson, middle schoolers 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.

Students will know and be able to use the formula for calculating compound interest and understand the effect of compounding on savings in this lesson.

Explains, with examples, what compound interest is and how to calculate it using a formula. Also shows how to work backwards to calculate the present value of an investment, how compound interest is calculated for different compounding...

Looks at compound interest and at the special circumstances of periodic compounding where interest may be calculated annually or semi-annually, for example, and how that affects the interest rate. Presents examples of different...

A calculator based on the compound interest formula that can be used to determine the Present Value, the Future Value, the Interest Rate, or the Number of Periods. You can select the type of compounding, the effective annual rate, and...

Students will learn how simple and compound interest is figured and why it is important to maintain a savings account. Students will calculate compound interest to identify benefits of saving in interest-bearing savings accounts. They...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This lesson provides a summary review of simple interest and exploration of continuously compounding interest. Students examine guided notes, review guided practice,...

In this activity, students deal with financial computations, where the interest is compounded continuously. Depending on the length of each compounding period, students will determine the number of compounding periods.

A lesson plan that includes a PowerPoint learning module for students. The goal of the lesson is to learn the difference between simple and compound interest and to use the functions in Excel to perform the calculations and graph the data.

For this task, young scholars work with simple and compound interest rates to determine which bank offers the best return on a deposit. Aligns with F-LE.A.1.

What is interest? What is the difference between simple interest and compound interest? Find the answers to these questions, learn how to calculate interest for a loan, and see how interest can help your money grow. Includes ten practice...

This Math Forum site gives links students' inquiries involving calculating both simple and compound interest for a variety of situations.

In this activity, students compare simple and compound interest in graph form. By doing this students will gain insight into interest and interest formulas, exponential and linear growth, and real world investment strategies.

[PDF] Encourages students to start saving early and explains the power of compound interest.

These questions involve compound interest, annuities, and amortizing a loan. Students will find the present and future value of investments; they will also find monthly payments and total interest paid on a loan. Solutions are provided.

A comprehensive guide for learning all about simple interest with definitions, simple interest formula, loans, solved examples, and practice questions.

In the problem presented here, money is invested in an account and its owner understands that interest compounded semi-annually gives a better return than interest compounded annually. He wonders how much interest can be earned by...