Illustrative Mathematics
Jamir's Penny Jar
Before you start counting the coins in Jamir's coin jar, figure out which coin to start with. Should it be the penny or the quarter? Why? This is the focus around a instructional activity that works well as an assessment on counting...
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Personal Finance Project Resource Book
Balancing a budget, paying taxes, and buying a home may feel out of reach for your high schoolers, but in their adult years they will thank you for the early tips. A set of five lessons integrates applicable money math activities with...
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Topics in Math
In this consumer mathematics worksheet, students explore a variety of topics in mathematics including simple interest, perimeter, area, volume, translating words into symbols, percentage problems and mortgage calculations. The fourteen...
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Real Life Challenge ~ Budget
In this consumer mathematics activity, students complete one month of budgeting by completing each of the statements with the appropriate information. Then they calculate their total expenses for the month minus their savings account...
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Month 2 Budget
In this consumer mathematics learning exercise, students complete a monthly budget by completing each category on the sheet. They fill in the blanks and calculate their totals for month two.
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Month 3 Budget
In this consumer mathematics worksheet, students complete a monthly budget form by filling each of the categories. They fill in their total expenses for each category and calculate their budget for month three.
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Month 4 Budget
In this consumer mathematics worksheet, students complete a monthly budget form by filling each of the categories. They fill in their total expenses for each category and calculate their budget for month four.
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Month 5 Budget
For this consumer mathematics worksheet, students complete the following statements with their appropriate information. Then they calculate their total expenses and subtract a portion for savings.
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Month 6 Budget
In this consumer mathematics worksheet, learners complete each statement with their appropriate information. Then they calculate their total expenses for month six and subtract a portion for savings.
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Truffles
Knowing how to scale a recipe is an important skill. Young mathematicians determine the amount of ingredients they need to make a certain number of truffles when given a recipe. They determine a relationship between ingredients given a...
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After Christmas Specials
In this math worksheet, students solve 4 story problems which pertain to after-Christmas shopping. Students will calculate prices of items on sale, figure out the best deals and solve percentage-off problems.
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Markup and Markdown Problems
There is a 100 percent chance this resource will help pupils connect percents to financial literacy. Young mathematicians use their knowledge of percents to find markups and markdowns in financial situations in the seventh segment in a...
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Summarizing Deviations from the Mean
Through a series of problems, learners determine the variability of a data set by looking at the deviations from the mean. Estimating means of larger data sets presented in histograms and providing a way to calculate an estimate round...
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Conducting a Simulation to Estimate the Probability of an Event II
Add some randomization into simulations. The 11th installment in a series of 25 presents two new methods to use in simulations--colored disks, and random numbers. Pupils use random numbers to run simulations where the probabilities make...
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Sitting across from Each Other
What is the probability that two randomly seated people will be across from each other at a square table? Check learners' understanding of theoretical probability and compound events with this short assessment. A great opportunity to...
Illustrative Mathematics
The Price of Bread
As part of an initiative to strengthen our young adults' financial understanding, this problem explores the cost of bread and minimum wage since the 1930s. Learners are asked to find the percent increase from each year and compare it...
Balanced Assessment
Pizza Toppings
Pupils work with a pizza shop's menu to determine the total number of pizzas possible from their ingredient list, how much the pizzas would cost, and how long it would take to eat all of them. The assessment concludes by having scholars...
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Water on Planetary Surfaces
In this water on planetary surfaces worksheet, learners read about the Galileo spacecraft and the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. They read about the energy needed to keep the water in a liquid state on Europa. Students solve 4...
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Working with Rates
In this working with rates learning exercise, students solve 9 problems where they find the rates, they solve 5 problems where they find the rates for compound units and they solve 5 problems where they find the rates using scientific...
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Worksheet 3 Math 126: Ellipses and Hyperbolas
In this ellipses and hyperbolas activity, students solve 8 short answer and graphing problems. Kids graph ellipses, hyperbolas, and parabolas given an equation. Students identify the foci of an ellipse or hyperbola.