Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Simple Interest Calculator
This site provides a simple interest calculator. Use it to calculate the future value of the principle and get a full explanation of the math behind the calculation.
AAA Math
Aaa Math: Simple Interest
This AAA Math lesson contains an explanation of simple interest and the formula for calculating simple interest. Links to practice problems and learning games.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Is Simple and Compound Interest?
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...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math; Interest
This Math Forum site gives links students' inquiries involving calculating both simple and compound interest for a variety of situations.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Simple vs. Compound Interest Spreadsheeting the Difference
A lesson plan that includes a PowerPoint learning module for learners. The goal of the lesson plan is to learn the difference between simple and compound interest and to use the functions in Excel to perform the calculations and graph...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Hotmath: Practice Problems: Percents 2
Twenty-eight problems present a variety of percent topics: percents as fractions, improper, and mixed numbers, percents as decimals, simple interest, and percent of increase/decrease. They are given with each step to the solution...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Are You Interest Ed?
In this lesson, students will explore simple interest through the use of studying loans and savings accounts. The students will generate the formula I=P x r x t to calculate simple interest on loans. Students will become familiar with...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Web Math: Math for Everyone
Provides online programs and explanations on everyday math: calculating a tip at a restaurant, determining the sale price of an item, finding the odds of winning a lottery, computing simple and compound interest, and more.
Thinkport Education
Maryland Public Television: Sense and Dollars
Engaging, fun tutorials and interactive games related to earning, spending, saving, and budgeting money.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Magical Motion
Students watch video clips from the October Sky and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone movies to see examples of projectile motion. Then they explore the relationships between displacement, velocity and acceleration, and calculate...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Projectile Magic
Learners watch video clips from October Sky and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to learn about projectile motion. They explore the relationships between displacement, velocity and acceleration and calculate simple projectile...
University of Maryland
University of Maryland: The Astronomy Workshop
Find tools to calculate astronomical distances and sizes, to view various Solar System models, to compare gravity's affect on weight, and more. A good place to find interesting facts, simple animations, and astronomy links to physics and...
Curated OER
University of Maryland: The Astronomy Workshop
Find tools to calculate astronomical distances and sizes, to view various Solar System models, to compare gravity's affect on weight, and more. A good place to find interesting facts, simple animations, and astronomy links to physics and...
Curated OER
University of Maryland: The Astronomy Workshop
Find tools to calculate astronomical distances and sizes, to view various Solar System models, to compare gravity's affect on weight, and more. A good place to find interesting facts, simple animations, and astronomy links to physics and...