Inside Mathematics
Swimming Pool
Swimming is more fun with quantities. The short assessment task encompasses finding the volume of a trapezoidal prism using an understanding of quantities. Individuals make a connection to the rate of which the pool is filled with a...
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False Positives
The test may say you have cancer, but sometimes the test is wrong. The provided task asks learners to analyze cancer statistics for a fictitious town. Given the rate of false positives, they interpret the meaning of this value in the...
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Animals of Rhomaar
Investigate the growth rates of alien animals. Pupils study fictional animals from another planet to determine how much they grow per year. The investigators plot the growth of their animals over a period of time and then compare them to...
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Solving Problems Involving Interest
In this math worksheet, learners find the answers to the word problems that focus upon the use of interest and figuring out the payments.
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Lesson 3: A Fresh Start
The members of your economics class may be busy earning graduation credits, but the credit they should be concerned about is their financial credit. The third lesson in a unit about Hurricane Katrina and other events that can result in...
Illustrative Mathematics
Overlapping Squares
The objective of this activity is to find the percent of the area of a two squares overlapping. Mathematicians find the ratio of area for the part that overlaps to the rectangle formed. The final answer is a percent as a rate per 100....
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Spend, Save, Invest or Donate (9-12)
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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Percent Applications
In this percent application worksheet, students solve word problems containing concepts such as percent, proportions, sale price, discounts, interest, commission, tax, and more. Students complete 11 problems.
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Thinking About Credit
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...
Practical Money Skills
Making Decisions
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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Chapter 11: Practice Worksheet - Word Problems
In this practice worksheet, learners read word problems, write an equation representing the problem, and solve the equation. Problems contain rate of change, simple and compound interest. This two-page worksheet contains 13 problems.
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Practice: Word Problems
Congratulations, you've just hit the word problem jackpot! Covering an incredible range of topics from integers and fractions, to percents, geometry, and much more, this collection of worksheets will keep young mathematicians busy...
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Percent Application Worksheet
In this problem solving worksheet, students solve each of the ten word problems by using their knowledge of percent, proportions, simple interest, and sales tax.
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Be the Kiwi: Money and Banking
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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Extra Practice 11: Applications With Percents
In this percent worksheet, learners read short stories, determine the information needed, write an algebraic equation and evaluate the problem. Problems include simple interest, sale price, and tax rates. There are nine percent problems...
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Credit Purchases
Twelfth graders calculate interest on purchases bought with a credit card. They use the formula I=PRT to find the interest. In pairs, they use a flyer to calculate the interest for electronic items.
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Linflower Seeds
How does your garden grow? Use proportions to help Tim answer that question. By using their understanding of proportional relationships, pupils determine the number of seeds that will sprout. They create their own linear relationships...
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Finding Sales Tax
Seventh graders investigate sales tax. Following a teacher demonstration, they find sales tax and the total cost of items. In groups, classmates choose items from a menu that they would like to purchase. Each student figures the sales...
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Framing a House
If members of your class wonder where they can use the math they learn in middle school, let them discover the answer. Learners apply geometry concepts of scale and measure to calculate the costs of framing a house addition.
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Calculating A Car Payment
Students choose a car from an Internet used car dealer and then calculate their monthly payment. All the necessary resources and formulas are provided. This is a simple, but practical and effective, lesson for a math or life skills class.
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What Is the Federal Reserve?
Students examine simple bank transactions. In this banking lesson, students analyze banking transactions such as deposits, loans, and how they hold reserves. They participate in simulations of the process of clearing a check and the...
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7.RP Music Companies, Variation 1
We've got the beat! And your musically-minded mathematicians will tap their toes as they determine which music company would be getting a better deal based on their offers to buy out TunesTown. The topic is extended in an additional task...
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I want a credit card--or do I?
Students pretend to borrow $1000.00 on a credit card. They pretend to make the minimum payments for a year. When they're done, they make a pie chart showing how much of their payments reduced their debt, and how much was interest.
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Sewing
Sew up your unit on operations with decimals using this assessment task. Young mathematicians use given rules to determine the amount of fabric they need to sew a pair of pants. They must also fill in a partially complete bill for...