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Data Analysis: Investing is an "Interesting" Experience

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students compute interest earned. In this data analysis lesson, students examine investments and interest rates. They compute the total interest earned and find the simple interest.
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Calculating Interest

For Teachers 5th - 8th
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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Practical Money Skills

Saving and Investing

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
You have to have money to make money, especially in the world of banking and investments. High schoolers learn about interest rates, saving and investment options, and ways to stay aware of their money's security and earning ability with...
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Worksheet
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Algebra Word Problems

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this inequality word problem instructional activity, students solve ten word problems related to algebra and inequalities. They first determine how many pounds of cheese it would take to make a specific amount of grated cheese...
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Interest Problems

For Students 8th - 9th
In this interest problem activity, 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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Investing for the Future

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders perform basic calculations for saving and investment strategies. they simulate the investment of $1,000 in the stock market and savings account. they determine which pays the greater dividend.
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FILLING EMPTY POCKETS: BORROWING, LOANS AND CREDIT.

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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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A Way to Wealth: Understanding Interest and Investments

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Money motivates! Help young bankers understand how math plays a part in investing. Give learners math practice while instilling real-world financial literacy skills.
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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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Worksheet
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Interest Word Problems

For Students 7th
In this interest activity, 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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Worksheet
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Topics in Math

For Students 10th - 11th
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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Completing Simple Tax Forms

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice filling out IRS 1040 EZ forms. They discuss various ways people pay taxes. They assess the importance of W-2 forms and apply skills using the IRS tax table to compute how much money is owed or returned.
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Exponential Growth and Decay

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Start with the basics and move up the exponential ladder to master a variety of problem-solving and application problems. The problems are heavy on exponential growth and decay, compound interest, and natural log.  
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Worksheet
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Financial News

For Students 7th - 12th
In this financial word problems worksheet, students solve word problems involving decimals, interest, multiplication, and more. Students complete 7 problems.
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Money Smart Choices

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students make choices regarding money management. In this personal finance lesson, students explore budgets, incomes, and expenses as they learn vocabulary regarding personal finance and consider how to create personal budgets.
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Worksheet
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Numbers

For Students 8th - 12th
In this interest activity, students calculate interest and percentages of numbers in number and word problems. Students complete 29 problems.
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Be the Kiwi: Money and Banking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers practice converting money systems and interest. In this money lesson, students convert U.S. and New Zealand dollars. Middle schoolers also discuss international travel and money exchange rates.
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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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Worksheet
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Your Money and Your Math

For Students 8th - 10th
In this algebra instructional activity, students calculate interest based on a certain amount of capital, sale or item purchased. They convert percents to decimals and perform the correct calculations to find their answer. There are 20...
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Practical Money Skills

Making Decisions

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Money represents decisions: spending decisions, saving decisions, and investing decisions. Encourage young adults to think about the decisions they make with their money in a three-day unit about personal finance, consumer spending, and...
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Spend, Save, Invest or Donate (9-12)

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars explore the concept of personal finance. In this philanthropy lesson, students examine decisions they make about money as they discover the definitions of philanthropy, resources, scarcity, choice, benefits, costs,...
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Worksheet
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Worksheet #6, Exponents, Interest, and Radioactive Decay of Isotopes

For Students 11th - 12th
In this calculus worksheet, students sketch graphs of given exponential functions. They compute the principal needed to have a given ending balance when the interest is compounded at varying times. Students use a simple exponential model...
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Discovering Math Concepts in Business Mathematics, Economics, and Finance

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Explore the concept of money and research its origin. There are many concepts related to business math, thusly, there are many formulas used to make calculations around money. Exchange rates of money in different countries, interest,...
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Thinking About Credit

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