Students examine the poverty line. In this poverty line instructional activity, students discover what the poverty line is and how the U.S. government determines it. Students calculate alternative poverty lines and examine their...

Students explore approximate and exact solutions. In this interdisciplinary activity, 6th graders will be placed in 'family groups' to create a budget that is subject to random events as chosen from the 'things happen' box. This activity...

Twelfth graders explain basic information concerning financial investments. They identify consumer rights and responsibilities and effective practices for purchasing consumer goods, services, housing and insurance. They list steps in...

Check out the handout from a presentation that contains a collection of high school algebra projects connecting a variety of mathematics to the real world. Activities range from simple probabilities to calculus. The activities...

Students graphically represent data from the Census.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students investigate the housing characteristics of different tribes of Native Americans and compare them to the average American...